If a person does not know, is that person still guilty of grievous crime?
Consider the plight of Oedipus and a modern day example.What would you do if you were on the jury at the Oedipus trial? What would you do if you were on the jury in a modern day trial?What would cause you to vote one way or another? Values? Beliefs? Evidence? Society Norms? Other information?
Answer:
Yes and no, Just because you think you didn't think you did something wrong doesn't mean you didn't do it but there are those people that choose to overlook what they are doing because they believe that they are too good for the law.
If I was to be on the trail to decide the fate of Oedipus it would be hard to do. These is a strange case because it has many different elements of factors and how to justify each and everyone is a hard thing to do.
His fate is one that many try to change but just lead right to it. His mother and father (Jocasta and Laius) tried to solve the problem by killing Oedipus but the servant sent to do the killing couldn't bare to live with himself to take the life of a baby. So he gave it to a Shepperd and the Shepperd gave it to Oedipus' adoptive mother and father.
When Oedipus heard of his fate he thought that the man and woman taking care of him where his real parents he had no idea that they weren't so by him running made him feel like he was doing the right thing but in reality he was doing what he was set on earth to do.
Oedipus isn't ignorance to the law he knows the law because he is the king but for him. Then again if he knew of where he came from and the truth from the start he wouldn't have the fate that the god's had set for him. But no matter how you look at it a guilty man is a guilty man. He committed the crime he had said what would happen to the man that did such thing "His fate will be nothing worse than banishment." (page 31 King Oedipus). He had set the fate of the one that committed the crime and he wants to follow what he has said. But Creon wont allow him to do that.
Oedipus committed the crime he should be punished for HIS actions. The crime is his doing no one else's.
Answer:
Yes and no, Just because you think you didn't think you did something wrong doesn't mean you didn't do it but there are those people that choose to overlook what they are doing because they believe that they are too good for the law.
If I was to be on the trail to decide the fate of Oedipus it would be hard to do. These is a strange case because it has many different elements of factors and how to justify each and everyone is a hard thing to do.
His fate is one that many try to change but just lead right to it. His mother and father (Jocasta and Laius) tried to solve the problem by killing Oedipus but the servant sent to do the killing couldn't bare to live with himself to take the life of a baby. So he gave it to a Shepperd and the Shepperd gave it to Oedipus' adoptive mother and father.
When Oedipus heard of his fate he thought that the man and woman taking care of him where his real parents he had no idea that they weren't so by him running made him feel like he was doing the right thing but in reality he was doing what he was set on earth to do.
Oedipus isn't ignorance to the law he knows the law because he is the king but for him. Then again if he knew of where he came from and the truth from the start he wouldn't have the fate that the god's had set for him. But no matter how you look at it a guilty man is a guilty man. He committed the crime he had said what would happen to the man that did such thing "His fate will be nothing worse than banishment." (page 31 King Oedipus). He had set the fate of the one that committed the crime and he wants to follow what he has said. But Creon wont allow him to do that.
Oedipus committed the crime he should be punished for HIS actions. The crime is his doing no one else's.
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