Decapitation Is A Penalty In Indonesia

I find this one interesting. While all of us think that laws are supposed to be rigid and tough and firm, there are those who are even so cool, we think it's stupid for the legislators for having had passed such laws.

For example, it is illegal in the City of London that cabs carry rabid dogs and corpses. It is also illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament as much as it is treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down. This obviously means disrespect for their royal family. In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station. Also in Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be put to jail. In the UK it is very fine if a pregnant woman relieves herself anywhere she wants even if it is in a policeman's helmet. When you go to Indonesia, you will learn that the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

Equality For All

For Aristotle, polis is the association of households and clans in a good life. He also said that the polis itself is prior to everything else. Aristotle compared this with the whole being necessity prior to the part, so the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual. But in order to have a good polis, you must consider your family too. And it is by human nature that we consider our families first before anything else. How do we resolve these opposing statements?

Justice, for him, is the bond of men in states. The administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society. But he also said, “justice means equality but only for those who are equal and not for all.” Who are then those who belong to his “equal” classification? Isn't it that everyone should deserve equality?