Ameneh Bahrami, an Iranian woman who was blinded and disfigured when acid was thrown in her face seven years ago, decided to pardon her attacker just before his sentence (court-ordered blinding) was to be carried out.
If I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is that the culprit might attack someone else, to spread the word to other countries to tighten punishments.
If I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is that the culprit might not learnt from his mistakes, back fire on the forgiveness and attack someone innocent. For example, Singapore's number one terrorist in captive at the detention centre, escaped a few years ago, even after he was given mercy, with the fact that he was never given any charges for any terrorist acts, and without trail went straight to detention. Despite this, he still dared to escape and in the end was recaptured in Skudai, Malaysia. Further more, in primary schools nowadays, students are getting more daring. Even punishments such as caning was introduce to the educational system to keep law and order.
If I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is that the culprit might attack someone else, to spread the word to other countries to tighten punishments.
If I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is that the culprit might not learnt from his mistakes, back fire on the forgiveness and attack someone innocent. For example, Singapore's number one terrorist in captive at the detention centre, escaped a few years ago, even after he was given mercy, with the fact that he was never given any charges for any terrorist acts, and without trail went straight to detention. Despite this, he still dared to escape and in the end was recaptured in Skudai, Malaysia. Further more, in primary schools nowadays, students are getting more daring. Even punishments such as caning was introduce to the educational system to keep law and order.
If I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is to spread the word to other countries to tighten punishments. Look at Singapre's law, it is very strict, for example, chewing gum is ban in Singapore. However, Singapore relaxed on the ban and those wanting to indulge the decadent habit will have to give their names and produce identification. And gum will continue to be available only at pharmacies. Pharmacists selling to customers without identification could be jailed for up to two years and fined nearly $3,000 US.
In conclusion, if I were to be Ameneh Brahrami, I would not show mercy to the acid attacker and have an eye for eye justice for taking away my face. The reason is that the culprit might attack someone else, to spread the word to other countries to tighten punishments.
Mercy (Reflection)
If we say show mercy, it will sometimes be giving someone a second chance, forgiving someone who went against you and turning over a new leaf. In the Merchant of Venice, Antonio clearly did not show mercy towards Shylock, the Jew. As a Christian himself, he would have practised mercy, but obviously not towards a Jew. I see mercy as being a much tougher element than justice. Being an indirect and reasonable attribute, it is quite rare among Singaporeans as we are kiasu which means, cannot lose. In this case, Ameneh was very kind enough to let the case got, let bygone be bygone. This action touches me as she was once beautiful, and her beauty was taken away from her. Through actions and words we can see if a person is truly forgiven or brought to justice. Nowadays, justice has been implemented in the Singapore Law and Order system, by having strict Laws.
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Ryan Lau :3
I disagree to what you have said that justice is better than mercy.If you were the victim,Ameneh,and you wanted to bring the acid attacker to justice and give him the same treatment that you suffered. Isn't this action being inhuman? How can you stand by and just watch the acid attacker get poured in the face with acid? Wouldn't this action of yours put yourself as low as the acid attacker?I feel that showing mercy to the acid attacker would be the bet decision and Ameneh made the right decision to let him go as there is always a way other than harming someone to solve a problem.
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