Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 4. April 23, 1958
Not Supreme Guardian
Not Supreme Guardian
After all the Legislator does not reward the moral good; therefore there is no sound reason why he should take interest in moral evil as such when a murder has been committed. He should confine himself to the social repercussions of the crime alone: its moral aspects are a matter of conscience, a private affair between God and the sinner only.