American Exceptionalism

I’m not aware of anything written in the Word so I don’t know for certain, but if you break one Commandment, you’ve broken the whole law and in desperate need of forgiveness.

Does that mean your religion considers a thief as bad as a murderer?

yes naturally, the amount of murders and how / the way someone is murdered should matter a lot

for example a major car accident where 10 are killed or a planted bomb that kills 100

No, no lol. Murder, not accidental killings. I wonder how differently you want to punish a murderer of 10 and a murderer of 100 people.

The consequences are different, in this world. Without Christ, they will be the same in the next world, although one may be eaten by worms while the other burns.

Since when do we equate an accident where people lose their lives to deliberate murder?

with more prison time

if for example that car accident was because of drinking and driving i would categorise it as murder

Lol. How many days would you put a murder of 10 people behind bars, compared to a murderer of 100 people?

depends, how did each murder take place? how much is that murderer responsible for each murder? etc etc

No. I like my 3 meals a day and a snack.

All murder were done out of greed. Let’s say they happened by stabbing. Now I wonder with what nonsense you will come up next onlyvto dodge my question.

lol no need to dodge if the question/situation is clear, ok so same conditions and they are solely responsible for all murders… with 10 times more people, i would say 5 times longer prison time for the 100 killer…

so in reality in the netherlands the one that killed 10 would get 20-25 years and the one that killed 100 would be in prison until they die

The value of a persons life is 21/2 years in prison? I bet you would want more if it was your mother or brother.

you just lost another bet

Your mother’s life is only worth 21/2 years in prison for the criminal? Your mother must be a bad person, indicating she may deserve it, which begs the question, why punish a murderer at all?

a prison sentence that is longer than actual lifetime makes no sense at all to me

laws and punishment are there to to help society by encouraging people from commiting crimes in the first place or from committing them again

I disagree with Dutch laws on porn and murder and drugs and prostitution. Every person I know who visited Holland liked it.

That’s better than 3 snacks and 1 meal.

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I know but you put a price on life not on what you think the criminal will live long enough to pay.

The law does no such thing. The Law was handed down to expose sin. If the law succeeded in encouraging people to refrain from committing murder, there would be no murder in the world, at all.

uhm no; i assigned prison time to murders, you put a price on life

it does

religious nonsense

correct, there wouldnt be any murder if all laws made sense and if people would act humane and logical

You’re welcome to consider it nonsense. That doesn’t make it any less true.

For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin. - Romans 3:20 TLV

I agree. You can start anytime you are ready.