Sentences with phrase «retributive justice»

Thor Erikson (R.G. Armstrong, pumped into grotesque parody of his God - fearing roles as proponent of retributive justice in Peckinpah films), after sniffing a horse's portion of cocaine and raping the girl (Sally Field) who works for him in his seamy health spa, tries to exterminate Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges) with weightlifting bars and metal pikes that he tears from the bodybuilding machines in his gym.

While aggravated damages might encourage lawyers to fer - ret out evidence of a defendant's state of mind, they would fail to do much for the public's interest in retributive justice.

Why don't we give Tutsis, Cambodians, Bosniak Muslims or any other victim of numerous genocides the same status for retributive justice accorded to Nazi holocaust victims, (which of course includes Jews, Romany, gays, etc).

I think it's because America has a rather peculiar obsession with retributive justice, and no doubt some of that is connected with our theology that goes back to colonial times, when it was Puritan revivalistic preaching, and some of that bitter fruit is still among us.

It is true that when we enter into society we give up the right to retributive justice at the personal level, but if the state ignores the retributive aspect of justice in its application in society, support for that society will erode, as will respect for it laws.

He asserts effectively his view that capital punishment is required by retributive justice, but he does not engage alternative arguments, such as that of the encyclical Evangelium Vitae.

They are the ones who have to watch their backs and fear retributive justice anytime soon.

An initial order of nonviolent distributive justice, in which every person has a sufficient share of God's resources to live and thrive, is reduced to a system of violent retributive justice to punish sinners.

It certainly acts as a wake - up call for those in power, but it frames the discussion around retributive justice.

Moreover, as a brief survey shows, prior scholarly accounts have not adequately explained both how and why states should pursue retributive justice through punitive damages.

She had asked for retributive justice and the court ruled the attacker should be blinded with acid.

I will say this: I think America, in a unique sort of a way, has an obsession with retributive justice.

In the long, complex history of our civilization's pondering questions of life and death, the law and moral sentiment allowed killing in two circumstances: the waging of a just war, and the retributive justice of capital punishment in the instance of murder.

1) The purpose of punishment in secular courts is fourfold: the rehabilitation of the criminal, the protection of society from the criminal, the deterrence of other potential criminals, and retributive justice.

While this change may be viewed as moral progress, it is probably due, in part, to the evaporation of the sense of sin, guilt, and retributive justice, all of which are essential to biblical religion and Catholic faith.

It may be, of course, that the Christian exercise of political power will have the effect of coercing someone — this is a feature, for example, of all acts of retributive justice.

Predestination is, by Calvinist theologians, regarded as a generic decree including under it Election and Reprobation as specific decrees: the former predestinating some human beings, without regard to their merit, to salvation, in order to the glorification of God's sovereign grace; the later foreordaining some human beings, for their sin, to destruction, in order to the glorification of God's retributive justice (Girardeau, Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism, 9 - 10).

On the cross, Jesus experienced the retributive justice of God on behalf of his people.

When read in context (that's something we historians do), the Sermon on the Mount contains quite a bit of retributive justice.

This is the «retributive justice» view of the atonement, which I do not believe Scripture teaches.

Balentine concedes the inescapable conclusion: even though Job's three friends argue passionately throughout on God's behalf for the traditional doctrine of retributive justice, the entire book is a repudiation of that doctrine.

They displayed a clear preference for retributive justice — al - qasas — over the non-judicial prescriptions of some international practitioners, such as truth and reconciliation commissions.

And the final effort it makes to chart a moral course out of the tradition of retributive justice, of an eye for an eye, feels rigged.

The scope of Brimstone would be far better suited to a television miniseries than a single two - and - a-half-hour feature; its central ideas of retributive justice, maturity, sexuality, and the loss of innocence are stunted due to its limited structure.

alone could be seen as an issue of retributive justice, distributive justice, or even procedural justice.

Any test of «fairness» must look to principles of distributive or retributive justice and must be supported by moral reasoning.

To precisely figure out the obligation of groups or individuals below the national level, one must examine theories of distributive justice and retributive justice.

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