eselam said:
adultery can result in spreading viruses, it can harm the innocent. but drugs won't hurt me if you take them, so why are drug users prosecuted or punished, they cause harm to themself, not others. and why shoulden't adultery be punished as well when it is a much greater risk to society.
Fatihah said:
Response: So what if a drug results a person to have brain damage. What does that have to do with making it illegal to have drugs? If a person chooses to have drugs and don't care if I they get brain damage what's it to you? And why does that person deserve to be punished?
Weak arguments....
You are saying that taking illegal drugs is choice of each person. So if they harm themselves, then what business is it mine. You are correct.
Well, the same thing could be said about adultery. A person can choose to cheat or to not cheat on the spouse. What bl#@dy business is it yours????
Now unless the adultery affects you in some way, like being a cheated spouse or their children (if they have any), then you have no right to butt in another's business, just as you've said I have no right to butt in the business of someone taking drugs.
Do you see how weak that your arguments are?
BTW. Did I say that drug users should be punished?
My previous post didn't say anything about punishing those addicted to drugs.
And again. BTW. Did I say that the cheating on a spouse is not immoral?
And you both seem to jump the guns, because I certainly did say adultery was the right thing to do. *
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All I said is that they are two completely different things, and unrelated, so Fatihah's comparison between these two are not good ones.
And yet, you both blast me with something I didn't say about drug vs adultery.
And BTW (last one...but I can't promise you it would be the last). You both said that the drugs don't affect anyone but the drug-addicts. Well, you're wrong about that too. Addiction can cause split up between spouses as much as adultery, or break up the family. Death or brain damage from addiction can also affect family and friends, who may love them (eg. grief, sorrow, etc). And the worse thing about this is that they are unscrupulous people profit from their addiction and death.
So yes, people who sell or make such drugs should be arrested, imprisoned and punished.
You can punish adultery, but not in the barbaric way, such as lashings and stonings. As YmirGF have pointed out, settlements can be may through divorce, which is far more civilised. People who cheat on their spouses often experience financial and property losses, as well as lose custody of children (if they have any). Adulterers deserve to lose through such settlements, but they don't deserve to be beaten, flogged or stoned.
This is the reason why Islamic law is obsolete (as well as other Abrahamic laws).
Tell me, you two.
Do you believe in "eye for eye" and "tooth for tooth" punishment?