Woman allowed revenge on attacker -I am interested in your thoughts

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386809/Eye-eye-Woman-blinded-scorned-lover-given-permission-throw-acid-eyes-Iran-court.html

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind!

The whole point of the biblical 'eye for an eye' is that you cannot kill someone as punishment for them blinding you; the maximum you can do is blind them back. People so often misunderstand this. It's about avoiding an escalation.

i was trying to imagine how I would feel in her position with the awful damage he has done to her. How could you live? You could be standing there, destroyed physically and think 'what the fuck have I got left>? Oh yes, my moral attitude and my good nature.'

If she does this she won't have anything left at all. It's sick. It's wrong and it's dangerous. It's not going to make her feel better.

I don't think having a moral attitude or good nature does you any good whatsoever in this world.

Really?

No. It's just what people say when they've been shat on 'Oh, I've got the moral highground' - so fecking what? It's a consolation prize at best.

(disclaimer: I do think I have a good nature/moral attitude to most things)

Seems that the sentence has been postponed.

How could this be undertaken in a hospital? How could doctors be assisting in this? Don't they have the Hippocratic Oath in Iran?

Ohmy, well, I don't hold with that view. It has certainly helped me move on and feel like a better person in situations where I have been attacked or insulted...knowing I didn't do that to someone else. So what if they did it to me...theycan't take away who I am inside.

To me it means an awful lot. No use in saying 'well I have no face - might as well throw away my character with it.'

Hurting another person is never right unless you are in the moment of being attacked and defending yourself.

The sentence has been postponed and it has been reported the victim wanted her attacker to be blinded.

OMF, I don't think that you have fully understood 'the moral high ground'. It is not about feeling ethically superior and smug. It's about letting go. Because if you don't then the anger or hurt eats you up from the inside and you become bitter. Forgiveness is not good for the wrong-doer, it's good for the victim.

I do understand 'the moral high ground'. I just feel that acknowledging that someone is a cunt and if something bad happens to them then you wouldn't care at all is actually quite healthy. And if we just automatically forgave everyone who does anything wrong, there'd be no incentive for them not to do it, would there?

I completely understand her wanting to do it to him, that I get entirely. But a justice system should be just that, a justice system, not a vengence system. It is wrong and the court should never have agreed to it.

I think it's completely barbaric. I do feel very sorry for this poor woman but I don't see how it would actually improve things for her. It's not really a step forward is it? Either for the victim or the society as a whole.
I do think he should be both punished and ordered to make some sort of compensation to his victim.

As soon as someone had ruined my life, I don't think morality would even enter my head. Imagine if someone did that to your DC, would the forgiving souls out there have the same opionion?

hammy02 I would want them to be punished but not in this way. I couldn't live with myself knowing I had dropped acid into another person's eyes. I'm very glad I don't live in a society such as this. While horrible things like this do happen they are performed by the criminals, not the courts or the medical profession.

How would it improve things?

Well, it might stop someone else from doing it.

georgimama, those who believe and follow sharia law would argue that under sharia law, it is justice, not vengance.

I suppose thier definition of what justice is, is differant to how we see justice to be.

I dont agree with posters saying she wont feel any better for doing it. How would you know?
This could be closure for her.

I agree with Hecate. Horrible as though the "revenge justice" may sound, what he did to her was even worse. Not the same, but worse.

Well from what I know of sharia law, it bears no resemblence to anything I would call justice.

That's irregardless: its what she feels is right for the crime commited to her.

Victims don't get to decide punishments in Western justice systems, bollockstoitall, and nor should they. I perfectly well comprehend that all this is permitted under the system in which victim and perpetrator live, I simply think that it is wrong.

I'm with IngridBergman here. That poor woman, nothing will ever change the horror that is her life now. But she does have the option to to be a better person than her attacker. I do believe in goodness and in forgiveness. What else does she have now?