{"id":941722,"date":"2021-10-30T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941722"},"modified":"2021-10-30T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:14:21","slug":"prager-someone-must-go-to-prison-for-the-killing-of-halyna-hutchins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-someone-must-go-to-prison-for-the-killing-of-halyna-hutchins\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: Someone Must Go To Prison For The Killing Of Halyna Hutchins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprager-someone-must-go-to-prison-for-the-killing-of-halyna-hutchins%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=941722&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If no one goes to prison for actor Alec Baldwin\u2019s accidental killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, our society will have failed a crucial moral test.<\/p>\n<p>We will be saying human life is not sacred; that it, in effect, is of little or no consequence.<\/p>\n<p>The killing was, we presume, unintentional (though we do not know for sure, as the possibility remains that someone had motive to load the gun with real ammunition). But that does not mean that no one should be held culpable and punished. Society must regard the taking of human life \u2014 even when unintentional \u2014 as something terrible.<\/p>\n<p>I learned this principle from the Bible, which was, until the last century, the source of America\u2019s and the Western world\u2019s moral values.<\/p>\n<p>This principle is repeated over and over in the Bible\u2019s first five books (the Torah), the source of all biblical laws. This repetition strongly indicates how seriously the Bible takes this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Example one:<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 21:28: \u201cWhen an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The obvious question is: Why would the ox be put to death? It is surely not guilty of murder; oxen have no free will. The reason it is put to death is that the killing of a human being cannot go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish Bible scholar, professor Nahum Sarna, wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe execution of the ox was carried out in the presence, and with the participation, of the entire community (the animal was stoned, not merely killed) \u2014 implying the killing of a human being is a source of mass pollution and the proceedings had an expiatory function. The killing of a homicidal beast is ordained in Genesis 9:5-6: \u2018For your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast \u2026 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in His image did God make man.\u2019 The sanctity of human life is such as to make bloodshed the consummate offense, one viewed with unspeakable horror. Both man and beast that destroy human life are thereafter tainted by bloodguilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Example two:<\/p>\n<p>Deuteronomy 19:5: \u201c(If) a man goes with his neighbor into a grove to cut wood; and as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies, that man shall flee to one of these cities and live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If no one goes to prison for actor Alec Baldwin\u2019s accidental killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, our society will have failed a crucial moral test.We will be saying human life is not sacred; that it, in effect, is of little or no consequence.The killing was, we presume, unintentional (though we do not know for sure, as the possibility remains that someone had motive to load the gun with real ammunition). But that does not mean that no one should be held culpable and punished. Society must regard the taking of human life \u2014 even when unintentional \u2014 as something terrible.I learned this principle from the Bible, which was, until the last century, the source of America\u2019s and the Western world\u2019s moral values.This principle is repeated over and over in the Bible\u2019s first five books (the Torah), the source of all biblical laws. This repetition strongly indicates how seriously the Bible takes this issue.Example one:Exodus 21:28: \u201cWhen an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned \u2026\u201dThe obvious question is: Why would the ox be put to death? It is surely not guilty of murder; oxen have no free will. The reason it is put to death is that the killing of a human being cannot go unpunished.The Jewish Bible scholar, professor Nahum Sarna, wrote:\u201cThe execution of the ox was carried out in the presence, and with the participation, of the entire community (the animal was stoned, not merely killed) \u2014 implying the killing of a human being is a source of mass pollution and the proceedings had an expiatory function. The killing of a homicidal beast is ordained in Genesis 9:5-6: \u2018For your own life-blood I will require a reckoning: I will require it of every beast \u2026 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in His image did God make man.\u2019 The sanctity of human life is such as to make bloodshed the consummate offense, one viewed with unspeakable horror. Both man and beast that destroy human life are thereafter tainted by bloodguilt.\u201dExample two:Deuteronomy 19:5: \u201c(If) a man goes with his neighbor into a grove to cut wood; and as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies, that man shall flee to one of these cities and live.\u201dAgain, the Bible describes a homicide that is entirely accidental. But the person who accidentally committed the homicide is not free to live a normal life. He cannot go on with life as if nothing happened. While he is not to be executed, he must flee to one of three \u201ccities of refuge\u201d in ancient Israel. There he may not be killed or otherwise hurt by a member of the killed man\u2019s family. But he is not a completely free man.In my Bible commentary, \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d I quote Leeor Gottlieb, a professor of Bible at Israel\u2019s Bar-Ilan University: \u201cThe Torah is morally ahead of some modern societies, in which people\u2019s lives go on nearly uninterrupted if they killed unintentionally.\u201dAs the Bible explains five verses later:\u201cThus blood of the innocent will not be shed, bringing bloodguilt upon you in the land that the Lord your God is allotting to you.\u201dHuman bloodshed brings bloodguilt upon the land.Example three:Deuteronomy 21:1-4 and 7: \u201cIf, in the land that the Lord your God is assigning you to possess, someone slain is found lying in the open, the identity of the slayer not being known, your elders and magistrates shall go out and measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns \u2026 And they shall make this declaration: \u2018Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. Absolve, O Lord, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel.\u2019 And they will be absolved of bloodguilt.\u201dUnlike the previous instance, in which the (unintentional) killer is known, the killer of the slain man found \u201cin the open\u201d is not known. Nevertheless, the community is still held accountable and must ask for forgiveness for not preventing a homicide.Example four:The final example is not biblical but from my radio show. Many years ago, a woman called to tell me about an ostrich raised on her family\u2019s ostrich farm. One day, this ostrich kicked her father to death. I asked the woman what was done to the ostrich. \u201cNothing,\u201d she replied.Given my biblical background, I was taken aback.\u201cSo you tell people who visit your farm, \u2018This is the ostrich that killed my father\u2019?\u201d\u201cYes,\u201d she responded.In my view, that cheapened her father\u2019s life and death.How much more so will Halyna Hutchins\u2019 life and death be cheapened if no one pays a steep price \u2014 for a death that was entirely preventable had proper precautions been followed?But given how little the Bible means to most Americans today, I would not be surprised if no one goes to prison.The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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