[RascalPuff]

Thank you, Sally and PoK:
Please keep in mind that with regard to prosecution or punishment, in the realm I allude to, the justice may be in uncovering what was previously and successfully sequestered.

Although all of us to one degree or other are - however remotely - accessory participants in the dynamics of society at large and its influence on particularly culpable individuals, certainly some people are a lot more responsible for their actions than the contingency of social influence which leads them to grievously trespass.

Bear in mind that, for example, 'the Charles Manson Family' repeatedly emphasized that 'society made them do it'. Though there is some verity in this argument, I think you will agree that, as other examples, the actions of offenders such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacey, are not to be attributed to the dynamics of society or the behavior - or existence - of their victims.

A line need be drawn separating the assailants from the victims, lest we fall into a pattern of shoulder shrugging indecision and what amounts to an apologist posturing relative to what really is evil. It may be 'politically incorrect' to be 'judgemental', but there are times when it is not only legally but morally necessary.

Again, in the post mortal realm I speak of, one of the qualities that othewise conscienceless people (souls) would be endowed with is that of a conscience, and that serves as a built in restraint and deterrent from rationalizing a 'no fault' stature.

There are gradations of guilt and innocence, and, does it not behoove the publlic - for its own sake and safety - to discern the degrees of difference? 'The public' has an obligation to know how, where and when to protect itself - this requires 'being judgemental'. Knowing and identifying right from wrong and especially degrees of it... The alternative is to find all of society guilty and let criminal anarchy prevail over an impotent culture.

Does not serious crime without consequence constitute incentive to beget more - and increasingly grievous - crime?

Your cautionarys about judgementality are duely noted, however, and certainly there is wisdom in them. May what punishment there may be, fit the crime.

In the given scenario of an immortal hereafter, the 'punishment' would simply be the installation of a sense of remorse and constructive repentence in the former wrongdoers.

Best regards,
- RP