St Mary's Winter Quiz 11 January 2025
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Would a version of Sharia law in the UK be such a bad thing?
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We'd see less drunkenness on our streets, chavettes having child after child and living on benefits would be frowned on. The birch, or its Islamic equivalent, would reduce the casual violence that blights our streets at weekends. Petty thieves might think twice if the punishment for persistent crime was to loose a hand rather than, as now, getting a slap on the wrist.
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Ah yes the perenial idea that derrent reduces crime
Like the way it operates in the US where the death penalty is so effective in maintaining their amazing statistics on violent crime!
The simple truth of the matter is that people rarely commit crimesif they think they are likely to be caught or they do so on impulse
Our current punishment regieme is probably quite sufficient if you had a situation where anybody comitting a crime believed they were almost certain to be caught.
As for impulse crime - get rid of alcohol and you would see that drop to miniscule levels
Good luck in getting that last one through parliament though!
Like the way it operates in the US where the death penalty is so effective in maintaining their amazing statistics on violent crime!
The simple truth of the matter is that people rarely commit crimesif they think they are likely to be caught or they do so on impulse
Our current punishment regieme is probably quite sufficient if you had a situation where anybody comitting a crime believed they were almost certain to be caught.
As for impulse crime - get rid of alcohol and you would see that drop to miniscule levels
Good luck in getting that last one through parliament though!
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Wow, another knee jerk, really quite shallow over-reaction to a complex issue. Do you read the Sun or the Daily Mail?
You don't seem to like people living on benefits, but you advocate chopping off limbs. So when those affected can't work because they've got no hands, I guess you don't think they'll start claiming incapacity benefit? Or maybe we could stop that "handout" too? Even to those deserving of it?
Your ideas would lead to an even greater social and economic divide between the poor (who will just get poorer without benefits or hands) and the rich. Less drunkeness on streets doesn't mean less drunkeness! All it would do is push the problem underground.
I'm fairly sure that 'chavettes' such as you describe are frowned upon now. It's not like that stops them though.
I guess you're in favour of repealing the Human Rights Act then? For all its faults, it's a step forward in a nation's treatment of humans, even though the press may make it seem otherwise at times. And how would we even know which parts of Sharia Law to use? The subjugation of women, the banning of alcohol? As Patrick Devlin said, "any society that doesn't enforce religious beliefs has lost the right to enforce religious morals".
You don't seem to like people living on benefits, but you advocate chopping off limbs. So when those affected can't work because they've got no hands, I guess you don't think they'll start claiming incapacity benefit? Or maybe we could stop that "handout" too? Even to those deserving of it?
Your ideas would lead to an even greater social and economic divide between the poor (who will just get poorer without benefits or hands) and the rich. Less drunkeness on streets doesn't mean less drunkeness! All it would do is push the problem underground.
I'm fairly sure that 'chavettes' such as you describe are frowned upon now. It's not like that stops them though.
I guess you're in favour of repealing the Human Rights Act then? For all its faults, it's a step forward in a nation's treatment of humans, even though the press may make it seem otherwise at times. And how would we even know which parts of Sharia Law to use? The subjugation of women, the banning of alcohol? As Patrick Devlin said, "any society that doesn't enforce religious beliefs has lost the right to enforce religious morals".
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Sandy sorry
Yes it would be.
Women 2nd class citizens - no technology- extreme laws for the smallest thing - no freedom of speech - rules laid down by a book of fairy tales over 1,300 years ago with absoloulty no concession to the passing of time.
I suggest you see a psychiatrist for even posting this.
Yes it would be.
Women 2nd class citizens - no technology- extreme laws for the smallest thing - no freedom of speech - rules laid down by a book of fairy tales over 1,300 years ago with absoloulty no concession to the passing of time.
I suggest you see a psychiatrist for even posting this.
ahmskunnirt - the vast majority had a healthy respect for law and order?
Have you been on a liquid lunch? Sounds like you grew up in a different country from me
In the Britain I grew up in in the 70s and 80's there were regular running battles between police and football hooligans every Saturday
There were riots and looting in places like Brixton and Toxteth
There were skinheads going "queer bashing" of an evening.
I think your memory may be playing tricks on you!
Have you been on a liquid lunch? Sounds like you grew up in a different country from me
In the Britain I grew up in in the 70s and 80's there were regular running battles between police and football hooligans every Saturday
There were riots and looting in places like Brixton and Toxteth
There were skinheads going "queer bashing" of an evening.
I think your memory may be playing tricks on you!
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