The Right to Punishment

Garibaldi: "Oh, I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador."

Delenn: "So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless?"

Garibaldi: "Not everyone. Just the bad guys."

—“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon 5 (1995)

This Episode Features: An Eye For An Eye; Babylon 5; When Musicians Fight; Demoted From Lounge Lizard; The Sword Is Not For Poking People; Robberbarons vs. Busybodies; Capital Punishment; and Jury Duty.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/2MmVuNP-htz-53

Links:

Babylon 5 S03E04 - "Passing Through Gethsemane": https://amzn.to/3hzTzRy

Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/

Matthew 5: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+5/

Luke 18: https://www.esv.org/Luke+18/

Romans 12-13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+12/

Proverbs 20:22: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20/

Proverbs 24: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+24/

"Piano Man" - Billy Joel: https://youtu.be/QwVjTlTdIDQ

"Would That It Were So Simple" - Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://youtu.be/G629a_3MkkI

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb

God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3hCQ50O

"St. Patrick's Bad Analogies" - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/389mRDM

Recos:

Twelve Angry Men (1957): https://amzn.to/386SRbk

American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr

Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand: https://amzn.to/3oamYUS

Earth's Holocaust - Nathaniel Hawthorne: https://amzn.to/388ZDgI