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   From: Reason@principles.com   
      
   Cutting a thief's hand off is like cutting a thief's whole entire arm off.   
      
   The thief should be allowed to work to pay the money back.  The thief   
   will not be able to work and pay the money back if his hand is cut off.   
     Allowing the thief to keep his hand, work, and pay recompenses, is   
   more enriching and makes everyone better off.   
      
   As the thief didn't cut anyone's hand off, cutting a thief's hand off is   
   not an eye for an eye.  There are now have handicapped mutilated people   
   walking around in some Arab societies.  This is a truly draconian   
   punishment.   
      
   Plus, on the other hand (no pun intended), in the future there will be   
   robotic hands and better and the thieves will be able to buy their hands   
   back; so what would be the point of this penalty.  This penalty is thus   
   ludicrous.  Furthermore today, this penalty is a degenerate cost to   
   society.  Instead of being able to work, the thief must become a   
   dependent.  Such a notion is truly derelict.  Cease mutilation and   
   torture as a means of punishment.   
      
   Mutilation and torture are akin to the death penalty.  And yet they   
   equate to deliberate inhumanity, while the death penalty if exacted as   
   needed, may be a punishment of desperation.  The death penalty for   
   thievery is not an appropriate punishment.  Neither is mutilation.   
      
   The purpose of the law is to end inhumanity.  A penalty like mutilation   
   is not appropriate for a crime like theft.  Such punishment is a pure   
   injustice akin to murder as it is overkill and does not fit the crime.   
      
   Allow thieves to work and keep their hands.  Then everyone will be   
   enriched.   
      
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