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Responsibility - Justice
These injunctions are not contradictory, for whosoever must be punished for the crimes which he has committed, suffers his injury not through the ill-will of the judge but on account of his evildoing. His own acts have brought upon him the injury that the executor of the law inflicts. When a magistrate punishes, let him not harbor hatred in his breast, yet a murderer, when put to death, should consider that this is the fruit of his own act.
  • Sacred text: Gospel of the Buddha, Shimhas Question para. 9
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Gospel of the Buddha
Shimhas Question para. 9
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