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Originally Posted by Tex
It's not binary, tooblue. Plea bargains and mercy on the part of victims is shown all the time. As I have repeated more than once, they are adults (though teenagers) and if they are required to face the music by those whom they offended, so be it.
I just think in this circumstance there's a little room for this:
http://lds.org/conference/talk/displ...559-26,00.html |
An appeal to mercy without respect for the demands of justice is a contradiction of eternal laws. It's ironic that the young men's planned lesson from this past week in our Ward was can mercy rob justice?
Even in the religious scenario with Christ as mediator the debtor must repay his debt.