Brunei's new laws

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03 Apr 19 06:48

FMF

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03 Apr 19 06:48

Brunei is enacting strict new laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.

Is this "evil" according to your moral outlook?

wolfgang59

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03 Apr 19 07:04

@fmf said
Brunei is enacting strict new laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.

Is this "evil" according to your moral outlook?

Three issues here;
the criminalizing of a persons sexuality
the sentence for that "crime" : death
the method: stoning

All 3 are immoral.
I cannot see any justification for any.

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03 Apr 19 07:35

@fmf said
Brunei is enacting strict new laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.

Is this "evil" according to your moral outlook?

Based on my own morality, fashioned from the society I grew up in and the experiences, influences, and education that have shaped my moral outlook, I would view such a punishment as wrong and immoral.

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03 Apr 19 07:41

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03 Apr 19 10:04

@fmf said
Brunei is enacting strict new laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.

Is this "evil" according to your moral outlook?

Yes.

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03 Apr 19 10:07

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This is the first I've heard of this, Junior.

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03 Apr 19 10:08

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Based on my own morality, fashioned from the society I grew up in and the experiences, influences, and education that have shaped my moral outlook, I would view such a punishment as wrong and immoral.

That's all any of us have, Ghost.

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03 Apr 19 11:13

@suzianne said
That's all any of us have, Ghost.

I thought you also had a moral law giver?

🙄

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03 Apr 19 11:20

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I thought you also had a moral law giver?

🙄

I thought you didn’t

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03 Apr 19 11:24

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@kellyjay said
I thought you didn’t

I don't.

(I said 'also' as 'in addition to' that which Suzianne referenced).

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03 Apr 19 11:25

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@fmf said
Brunei is enacting strict new laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.

Is this "evil" according to your moral outlook?

You are asking if this is evil? Don’t you really mean if people approve or not, aren’t you just asking for opinions?

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03 Apr 19 11:27

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@kellyjay said
I thought you didn’t

So whose "north star" should we set our "compasses" for? The Sultan of Brunei's, Ghost of a Duke's or KellyJay's?

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03 Apr 19 11:31

@kellyjay said
You are asking if this is evil? Don’t you really mean if people approve or not, aren’t you just asking for opinions?

I am asking you if you think it is "evil"? You can dodge the question if you want to. It's your prerogative.

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03 Apr 19 12:33

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@fmf said
I am asking you if you think it is "evil"? You can dodge the question if you want to. It's your prerogative.

Is that not Sharia law?

Do you think Sharia law is evil?

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03 Apr 19 12:52

@whodey said
Is that not Sharia law?

Do you think Sharia law is evil?

Some of it is OK. Some of it strikes me as "evil", yes. I oppose capital punishment; I don't think homosexuality, in and of itself, is immoral; and I don't think adultery is any of the government's business aside from the courts presiding over contested divorces. Do you think the Sultan of Brunei's new laws are "evil"?