Good and Evil - Christian

Conscience = inner voice guiding one's sense of right and wrong --> It's God given 

Punishment 

• Protection --> Used in order to keep people safe
• Deterrent --> Punishment is meant to keep people away from wanting to commit crime
• Retribution --> Eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life --> Getting even is the only way for victims to feel as if justice is done. In the old testament God told the Israelites to seek justice in the form of equal punishment
• Reform --> Love thy neighbour --> Looks to address the reason for pursing crime in the form of therapy

Restorative justice --> Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never falling stream --> Enables criminals to make amends for their behaviour by meeting the victim and apologising to them. Christians believe in forgiveness 

Taking a life is worthy of the death penalty --> Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood shed --> God created humans in his image so taking a life is a crime worthy of the death penalty

For capital punishment:

• Life in prison is expensive
• Some people can't be reformed
• Gives the victims closure
• Protects society from danger

Against capital punishment 

• It's murder
• People can sometimes be innocent
• Only God can end a life
• Forgiveness is important 
• Goes against human rights 

Believe in forgiveness --> Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us --> The Lord's Prayer tells Christians that if they want to be forgiven they they have to forgive others

Equal treatment -->Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy --> If you show forgiveness then you will be forgiven by God