Sunday, September 27, 2009

Ignorance vs. Guilt

~Question~
If a person does not know, is that person still guilty of grievous crime?Consider the plight of Oedipus and a modern day example.What would you do if you were on the jury at the Oedipus trial? What would you do if you were on the jury in a modern day trial?What would cause you to vote one way or another? Values? Beliefs? Evidence? Society Norms? Other information?

~Answer~
In todays socitety even if you didn't know what a rule or what some was illegal, they still punishe you for it. If they didn't then everyone would be getting away with crimes. So if i was on the jury i would also find them guilty. Even know they plea not quilty and also have a good reason for doing what they did; people cannot just slide by. I think that if anyone was on trial for this, even if they were found quilty or not quilty for this crime, they would either die with pride and know that they did the right thing; even if it meant death. And also if their life was spared, they would live with pride and also knowing that they made the right descion in life. So its kind of works for both ways.

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