Hey guys,
This weekend, a court in Iran postponed carrying out a sentence for a 2004 conviction. 30 year old Majid Mohavediwas was convicted of assaulting Ameneh Bahrami, a 26 year old woman who repeatedly refused his many offers of marriage.
Mohavedi apparently blinded Bahrami by throwing acid into her face. Under Iran’s strict Islamic law imposed after the 1979 Revolution, Bahrami has the right of retribution, meaning she can seek the ancient right of “an eye for an eye”... in this case literally.
The court granted Bahrami’s request that her attacker be blinded in the same way she was... the court even granted that Bahrami herself would pour the acid into the eyes of Bahrami in a hospital.
Iran has postponed carrying out the sentence after receiving protests from many western countries, including the United States.
What do you think about this type of punishment? Is “an eye for an eye” justified in the modern world?
Well I sort of agree with this but it is not used in the modern world today in America. If you assult someone or hurt someone you just go to jail. But what happened here is acually fair. He did it to her basically because she said "no." He did not have the right to throw acid at her face and blind her for the rest of her life, that's just messed up. So in return she can do the same. It is acually fair but it isn't because we are used to people just commiting a crime and just going to jail for it, not doing the same thing to person that did it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that an eye for and eye makes the world go blind. the whole action-reaction idea causes people just to continue to get even, but what is considered even? From this man's point of view she will never feel the pain he felt from her refusal towards his requests, but in her eyes he will never feel the pain of being blinded because she did not want to marry him. So what can be considered even? If he truly loved her he would not have done that to her, so if he was sick enbough to do it in the first place will he truly feel the consequences were just? Like I said, an eye for an eye makes the world go blind
ReplyDeletePersonally, I find that there is a distinct difference between the "Modern World" and the "Third World" countries. Of course an eye for an eye punishment is in no way justified. Criminalizing the victims never does anything for the betterment of society. As was mentioned the whole eye for an eye , equality/revenge saying is a one that rose from a biblical passage and in most under developed countries or countries that are in the process of developing the old religious beliefs are still the supreme law of the land. I feel that as many countries view the American society as troubled degenerate sinners , we should stop protesting our modern believes on a country that is set in a literally different time period. We as American's have legalized abortion, prostitution and gay marriage and some countries, without having other countries protesting and literally budding into our business. After all, the people of the land make the laws and if all of the people in Iran feel this is right and justifying than go about doing it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that the Iranian government should allow Ameneh Bahrami to blind her attacker. Although I would feel no remorse whatsoever for Mohavediwas, I have been raised under the American judicial system where this is illegal. It isn't right to stoop to that level as tempting as it may be. Let him rot in jail.
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If you, or one of your friends, were blinded by acid because they said no, would you want the person who did that to you to suffer? Maybe I've got some mental issues, but if that happened to my friend, I'd say "Hell yes. Where's the acid?". I would want to make him or her suffer for what they did. You all can judge me as you choose, but no one messes with my friends. The Iranian government can judge him as they see fit, and they see it fit that she seek retribution, what can the U.S. say? Do we have jurisdiction in the entire world now? Are we that arrogant to determine how someone in another country, with different laws, is punished?
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely horrifying. Both sides of the story, that is. I can only imagine how terrifying it must be feeling that acid burning away at each and every layer of skin on your face. However, I cannot imagine what it would be like for the perpetrator, either.
ReplyDeleteI can understand where this woman is coming from, when it comes to wanting to get revenge on the psychopath that has permanently damaged her image and life. Although, I think that the age-old law of "an eye for an eye" is a little bit savage. As Gandhi said, it "makes the whole world blind." I believe this law should be taken off of the books; but, this person should still be tried, and either sentenced to life imprisonment, or, in the more likely case, death.
As an added note, I believe you have to be truly insane to throw acid into a person's face. Forget stabbing, or shooting, someone, this is a much more devastating way of ruining someone's life. Absolutely disgusting.
-Jake M.
Although I'm sure Bahrami would feel much satisfaction in being able to do to Mohavediwas what he has done to her, I don't necessarily think it's justified. There is a part of me that isn't bothered by this, but that's just the emotional side of me because of the horrible act he has done. Objectively thinking, Mohavediwas can still suffer by paying his dues in jail; right where he belongs.
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