"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice"
- Omar Bongo
About this Quote
This quote by Omar Bongo talks to the distinctions in between the Western idea of justice and the concept of responsibility and collective sanctions. In the Western idea of justice, people are held liable for their own actions and are judged and penalized accordingly. This is in contrast to the concept of obligation and collective sanctions, which holds that a group or community is accountable for the actions of its members and can be punished as a whole. This suggests that the actions of one individual can have effects for the whole group, even if the person was not directly accountable for the action. This is a concept that is foreign to the Western principle of justice, which is why Omar Bongo mentions that the 2 are incompatible.
This quote is written / told by Omar Bongo somewhere between December 30, 1935 and today. He/she was a famous Statesman from Gabon.
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