RAYMOND ROGACION

07-15-2013
PS1042
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Conceptual definition:
The motion assumes that there is an equal price to pay for everything

Background information:
In a world wherein the laws put peace and order into place and dispose
justice accordingly, still many lives cant live in absolute peace due to crimes
that threatens their safety. The question therefore is, what could be done to
lessen crimes and preserve peace and dispose justice? KNOWING THAT
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DETERRENT TO HEINOUS CRIMES WOULD BE THE
ANSWER.

The status quo

In the status quo, the Philippines observes life imprisonment as its
highest form of punishment for heinous crimes (murder, rape and the like)
instead of death penalty, so for instance one has committed murder or rape
then he is sentenced only to life imprisonment. Society is justly ordered
when each person receives what is due to him and crime disturbs the order
of society when wrongdoers through crimes take away the life, liberty and
property of others.
Deserved punishment protects the society morally by restoring just order by
making wrongdoers think many times before committing crimes for he knows
that the price to pay for his crime is equivalent to the harm he has done. It is
a rational view that people fear nothing more than death. Therefore, nothing
will deter a criminal more than the fear of death.

Proposal

As I propose, reviving the capital punishment or death penalty as the

punishment for heinous crimes in the Philippines be done to deter crimes.