Do You Believe Higher Justice Awaits the Lockerbie Bomber?

The pundits on MSNBC's Morning Meeting were opining that the Scottish court released this guy in part because he was going to die within three months, and that the court believes "higher justice" meted out by god was in the guy's immediate future (?) once he died.

Do you believe in such a concept?

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so important.

it is apparently not a rare or odd thing to release end stage terminal patients from prison

maybe it saves them money on health care costs, i dunno, but the stated reason is compassion

just because the prisoner is a terrible human being, does that mean that the judges and justices should be equally terrible?

mercy is considered a value in some societies, obviously not in america, but it is certainly valued in some other nations and apparently scotland is one of those

we are merciful for the benefit of our souls not necessarily the benefit of the other person's soul, if that makes sense?

i'm not saying i agree w. the decision, i'm just saying this looks to be the reasoning

i don't think scots are particularly religious

Scots are particularly irreligious, which is probably what makes them so much more compassionate than people in highly religious countries.

It seems like religious people think god's falling down on the job of retribution against the guilty and needs their help.

were saying that the religious belief of a "higher justice" awaiting this guy entered into their decision to set him free. The guy from the WP said that the words of the judge in the case reflected this belief.

That would mean that the court is showing mercy for the man and his family, but that said mercy is contingent on the guy REALLY getting fucked by god once he's dead.

Also, there is no such "mercy" available from the court to the families of the 200+ people this guy killed with his bomb.

to hold an opinion on that.

he sure as hell isn't going to be our problem for very much longer.

I'd have to say his last days/moments pondering "whether?" might well approach that concept of judgment.

I'm certain he will suffer the same certain death from cancer in Libya as he would have in Scotland, and his dying in Scotland wouldn't bring any of those poor folks back to life.

Oddly enough, though, that supreme justice entails something entirely different than a "comeuppance" for every one of us.

on a speck of space dust.

I don't believe that God throws sinners into a pit of fire where they are poked with pitchforks; rather i think that doing evil and being evil taints the immortal soul. It's not so much that you need to be tormented by external things; it's that after this life the blinders fall away and we see ourselves as we really are, and we then go on to our torment or our joy which is largely self inflicted.

If you practice being a miserable bastard for 70 years odds are after you die you will continue being a miserable bastard.

Bryant

are endless, as your post - which is your opinion - shows.

That's why there's an "Other" option - so people can express a more-nuanced belief/opinion, as you have done.

then maybe we are here to learn ...some lesson... in however we live this life.
there is probably no longer a need for revenge or balancing of the scales once the mortal coils are tossed off.

maybe he was here to learn how to be what he was, maybe its something we all had to experience at some point.

noone knows. anyone who tells you they do is delusional.

If you believe in such beings, than you would naturally seek contact with them, and there is religious precedent for such contacts occurring. Of course if you don't believe in God or Gods the situation may not arise.

But then again, perhaps faith is, of necessity, a type of delusion.

Bryant

confusing faith with fact is of course delusional. something which a vast portion of the human species is afflicted with.

its not easy to admit you dont know things.

In both cases, you base your actions on what you know or have faith in.

Bryant

And neither did the guy at the pulpit.

he could be given some republican health care benefits!

to celebrations and jubilation.

it saddens and angers me.

In response to the question, I don't really know. I don't have a strong belief or disbelief in there being God, I guess I'm agnostic. If there is a God I would hope there is some justice in the afterlife, but I just don't know.

But for some crimes it seems impossible to exact justice in this life here on earth.