This is so called ‘honour killing’ yes?
It makes us better because we aren’t targeting innocents. These psychopathic creatures (the word “human” barely applies here) injured and killed a helpless child…FOR FUN. They weren’t drunk, or delusional, or possessed by insane rage. They ENJOY maiming and killing innocents, and I would have no problem demonstrating to them what kind of pain they made their victims feel. Tit for tat, eye for an eye, karmic law of threes, etc.
Public torture & executions used to be the norm – what makes us better now than those days of yore?
Anyone who doesn’t torture children is better than someone who does. That’s obvious. What you want to do is to torture adults publicly - for what? Fun? To make you feel better?
What, I think, makes us better now is that most of us (I hope) realise that torture is cruel and inhumane and has no place in a civilized society. We’re telling these sadists that what they did was wrong, and we’re going to do the same to them and tell them that when we are doing it, it is right. It’s, at the very least, inconsistent.
Not in the way the term is frequently used now, where the men in a oftimes-‘religion-of-peace’ family kill a female family member for “bringing shame upon them”. And in the AoB laws, the concept of honor is not used. It’s seen as deferred justice.
Btw, to the objection that the near of kin ARE the offenders, I am sure that the law is adjustable to that the nearest of kin who isn’t an evil wretch would qualify.
Anyway, preferable to any of this would be a REAL justice system that recognized that people who would do this to anyone, much less a child, are irrepairably broken & need to either be put away where they can do no harm or put down like mad dogs & sent back to the Maker
Corporal punishment can be every bit as dispassionate and detached as confinement.
We also condemn kidnapping in our society, and holding someone against their will. 
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fanboy of torture or anything, but something akin to caning or whipping can’t really be much worse than having a few years of your life stolen from you. Definitely different, and certainly much less palatable, but then again, the costs of a prison sentence to society are not trivial either.
An eye for an eye, from back in the day.
Thanks for the link. That’s very interesting.
I’d say no. But in a different way. I’d say that people with mean streaks should be hung, like they once were. The premise of reforming people through penitence in the penitentiary has been long since disproved.
Essentially, yes. But only for those who deserve it.
Who decides if a person deserves the punishment? You, or next of kin, or courts, or a show of hands from a crowd?
This, amongst other things, is a vitally important question.
Anytime you allow people to wield dominance over others in a socially permitted way, the strong and powerful will use the system to their best advantage, for gain and for pleasure. It’s true socially, it’s true economically, and I’ll be damned if I live in a world where I have to be afraid of people inflicting physical pain on my just because they feel like it and have the power to do so with impunity.
The same here.
Any thoughts on this?
I’d hope it would be political suicide for our politicians to accept such an arrangement on our behalf. Given Australia’s history as a British penal colony, the protest signs practically write themselves.
“Men go to prison dogs get put down.”