Is this world a place for punishment ?
115779
Life man, get over it!
651852
yes..an eye for an eye...each person should be held responsible for their own action and should be punished/rewarded to what he/she has done to others
564758
Yes if your a glutton for punishment!
1155956
I think the "world" is a fine place. Nature is amazing and should be protected. Fighting? I suppose yes, but not at the detriment of flora and fauna. If you are referring to humans, we leave a lot to be desired but the good within should eventually catch up with our level of education , thus the utopia written about in fiction might be achieved.\n\nDo only good things and you will be a part of the solution instead of a part of the problem.
748733
to be punished by death
1127530
Punishment is used to teach someone that what they have done is wrong. There are all types of punishments and you just have to figure out which one works best for which person. If someone does something wrong to you and they get punished for it and that teaches them to not repeat the bad behavior, then the lesson was learned and everyone is better off.
668110
you are right.humans should start to respect others,and this place would be much better
709152
Nope....look at the pollution in the world....the decay of moral values....I'm trying to sound negative....but...with the crazy weather....depleting natural food resources....human greed...\n\nHow can this world be a better place for the next generation...unless...all humans "WAKE UP THEIR IDEAS!!!!"\n\nCheers.....
1066354
The answer: YES, but it has nothing to do with good and evil or right and wrong. It has to do with going against the established norms set forth by a society in which you live.
382618
I do not believe that god punishes at all.  We simply experience the consequences of our actions.
237561
Many people were punished in the Bible, and for various reasons.\nIn the time of Noah, the entire world was destroyed for their wickedness, and only eight people were spared (Noah, his wife, and their three sons with their wives). After the flood, the lives of men were drastically shortened, so that men could devise less evil in a lifetime.\nThen, at the Tower of Babel, God punished men by breaking them up into family groups with different languages. Once again, so that less evil could be devised by man.\nAs it has been stated, the people of Sodom and Gommorah were punished (in the time of Lot and Abraham), for their sexual sin, for their bloodshed, and violence. Because of the prevalant sexual sins and deviations in Sodom and Gommorah, there must have been terrible VD. So would be safe to assume that God destroyed those cities to prevent the destruction (through rampant VD) of many more.\nLater, God punished the Egyptians for their cruelty to the Israelites, who had gone to Egypt for protection 400 years earlier.\nAfter that, God used the Israelites to destroy the peoples of Caanan, (who by this time had become extemely evil, violent, bloodthirsty, and sexually deviant). Once again, although it seems cruel to destroy a whole generation of people, I believe God was simply sparing the world from the destruction that these nations would have wrought on the earth had they been allowed to live. (Evidence for this can be seen in the few nations that WERE allowed to live, and the horrible things they did, and caused others to do.)\nThe judgement of God ALWAYS has a motivation of mercy!\nThis is seen most clearly in the Person of Jesus Christ, who, although He had committed NO SIN, was punished with sinners, taking the place of us who DESERVE punishment. Jesus was not forced to die, He CHOSE to die, in order that we may live! His death, terrible as it was, is also the most wonderful event in the history of the world. Because Jesus had committed no sin, death had no power over Him, and He rose from the grave!
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YES!! The judgment is that we are all guilty.\nThe penalty for this crime is our very lives (eternal death).\nBUT...\n A man walked into our courtroom and paid that fine, took our place and DIED IN OUR PLACE.\nThat man was Jesus.\n\nRepent and trust Him to save you.
325183
No,exclusion is cruel and possibly barbaric.It wouldn't change how good or bad the world is that much because its wrong and faulty.
265539
No, sir, we don't live in the ancient times.  Nowadays that's considered cruel and unusual punishment.\n\nYeah, but the constitution says they are free from cruel and unusual punishment.
942134
What are you talking about! I think that would be a good first punishment!\n\nAs a society, we have become far too soft. Just look at our kids.\nIn our city, a five year old and his buddies ranging from 5 to 12 are setting fires and pushing disabled kids into those buildings just for something to do...and what is their punishment? a slap on the wrist and don't do it again Johnny!\n\nKids have no respect for anything, parents, teachers, or property. We need to bring back deterrents. Tazers,  public caning and flogging would be a good start.\n\nNow don't get me wrong. I don't believe in abuse of any kind, but a good spanking on the backside  with a limited amount of force and provided the child knows what he did wrong, isn't going to hurt as much as humiliate.\n\nI remember my Mom, smacking me in Safeway one day because I was having a temper tantrum. Do you think I did that again? No way, I was so ashamed.
936542
Ay yes.   The best punishment for hypocrisy is irony.\n\nIt is indeed fun to watch them hang, one-by-one, on the gallows they painstakingly constructed.\n\nWhen you build a platform on inflaming people's self-righteousness  judgement, then you've trained your base to be extremely quick to judge you and abandon you when you reveal yourself to be human.  \n\nIt is very dangerous to bill yourself as the "party of morality."
218652
Revenge?  No.\n\nBut being forced to pay one's dues or punished for one's actions, absolutely.