At one point in the video that we watched today, I noticed how the speaker said that in order to benefit the majority, the minority must suffer. I completely disagree with this. One of the students responded to this saying that we have no control over our life situation, class, salary, education etc. I, however, believe that is is not the case. These two idea stated above are invalid facts because it has been shown multiple times that people born into poor families have made it big in their lives. It is not like in the past, where what class we were born into was where we stayed forever.
One of the main other topics was if you can put a price on a life. I do not know for a fact if I agree with this. I do, however, know that when a loved one is lost, he or she is gone forever. There is no way of bringing them back, no matter how much the accused is punished. The government will in most cases provide a large sum of money to cushion the family because it is the only way that they believe that the pain can be reduced easily. This money given could be seen as the price of a person. In many cases, this is not what the court means to do.
In the case of the lion in Ancient Greece or Rome, that is a completely different situation. A life should not be taken away from a person just for pleasure. If it was a situation of sacrificing one person for safety or religion, then it would be a just reason. Entertainment is not.
I feel like with the points you have raised that it clearly shows so much of how giving money to relieve the pain of a lost one is similar to a bribe. It is almost as if they do not care about the lives lost because they think that as long as it is compensated that it is no longer a problem. Money cannot replace a person. The emotional distress cannot nor will it ever be removed. Money cannot bring the same joy as the lost one could have brought to the family.
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