Thread: Sex felons and personal privacy
View Single Post
  #15 (permalink)  
Old 09-13-2008, 02:35 PM
Ex Nihilo's Avatar
Ex Nihilo Ex Nihilo is offline now.
Puritanboard Junior
  
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cambridge, MA
Posts: 1,215
Thanks: 461
Thanked 216 Times in 118 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Christusregnat View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by SRoper View Post
Labeling a person a sex offender is much like a permanent disability inflicted on the individual. I don't think that's necessarily an unjust punishment as there is at least one crime in the OT that is punished by cutting off the offender's hand.
I'm unfamiliar with the hand cut off; can you elaborate? Is that the one where the two guys fight and the wifey steps in to "help"?
I think so (Deut. 25:11), though I'm not trying to answer SRoper's question. But just a thought: If hand amputation is specifically prescribed as a punishment for one crime, doesn't that exclude it for other crimes, for which it is not prescribed? And -- maybe this is a stretch? -- by analogy, does it mean that crimes without permanent punishment in OT law should not be given permanent punishment under our law? I am not sure.
__________________
Evie B.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Attending Park Street Church, Boston

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. --Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV)
The Following User Says Thank You to Ex Nihilo For This Useful Post:
Christusregnat (09-13-2008)