Child dies due to faith healing; parents get 6 months of jail time

**Rhyfelwyr** · 11-13-2009, 19:14

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Irrelevant. Let's say you have a serial killer who believes that he's saving his victims from going to hell(I'm sure there's been at least one). Does he get a free pass to kill people?

He still intended to break the law. These parents didn't.

**HoreTore** · 11-13-2009, 23:12

Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

He still intended to break the law. These parents didn't.

Uhm, no? Because "denying a dying person medical care" sure sounds illegal to me....

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 11-14-2009, 01:17

Originally Posted by HoreTore

I'm Norwegian remember, that means I'm a social-democrat

You Norwegians have a thing about religion, the reaction can be quite violent, is there a reason for that? Something historical?

Irrelevant. Let's say you have a serial killer who believes that he's saving his victims from going to hell(I'm sure there's been at least one). Does he get a free pass to kill people?

Originally Posted by jabarto

Also, Philipvs, I might have given the wrong imporession in my responses to you. I think you're one of the most reasoanble and knowedgeable psoters here, and I don't want to come off as being pissed at you for defending these people. I'm more pissed at the blatant religous favoritism the judge is showing here; if these people were *anything* other than devout Christians, they would have had the book thrown at them. But they prayed first (to the right deity) so I guess that makes it all okay in the eyes of the law.

Both excellent questions. The point is this, gaol should only be a punishment when the convicted is both a danger to society and unrepentant.

So, both these parents and a Jihadist militant should remain in gaol only so long as it takes to convince them their beliefs were mistaken.