Look Sister Steadman No Hand: Research Project (13)

In my writing class at BYU we have been given an assignment to write a research paper on a family story that has a related topic to a current issue and is relevant to my personal life. The story that I chose to write on is of my father's uncle, who caught a man steeling for their wrecking yard. At the beginning of this assignment I was skeptical about this assignment because the I personally felt the requirement were a little extreme. Now that I have started the paper I am feeling a little better about it and the progress I am making.The topic of my paper is on justice and mercy.

If I were to have a dialogue with one of my readers about my paper which and was given the following questions it could proceed like

(Reader) What are the right form of punishments according to the crimes committed?

(Me) Well every degree of crime has a degree of punishment that correlates to it. If there are minor crimes a minor punishment must be assigned. if there is a major crime a major crime must be assigned. It is wrong to assign a punishment that does not match the crime. If there is to be mercy given in place of the punishment the crime committed must be justified in the situation and circumstance of the individual. For example there is a circumstance in which one human killing another human is a crime (murder) and there is another circumstance in which it is not a crime (self-defense). with murder a punishment must be given, with self-defense a mercy is given.

This Posting has been a direct assignment form my professor.

-The IT Dude