Is it moral?

[Kylie]

You can take any type of crime and it can have infinite impact based on domino effects.

Anything that have direct psychological barrings is an easier example (murder, rape, etc.) but it could be as small as felony, speeding that cause another event to happen. Point is, life is not quite input-output.

Very well.

Please explain to me how a murder 4000 years ago is still having an impact today.

 

[pat34lee]

Can you give an example of a crime that has infinite impact?

Murder. It ends a life, and impacts every life that person touched and would have touched.
It also ends any children that person would have had and all they would have had, etc.

 

[Kylie]

Murder. It ends a life, and impacts every life that person touched and would have touched.
It also ends any children that person would have had and all they would have had, etc.

Actually, if you go back far enough, you'll find ancestors that you don't share genes with, because not all the genes from your mother (let's say) came to you. You only got half of her genes, and she go half her genes from her mother and the other half from her father. So, while on average you get 25% of your genes from your maternal grandfather and 25% from your maternal grandmother, the exact amount can be different.

So the 50% of genes you get from your mum could actually be 90% maternal grandfather and 10% maternal grandmother. And when you have kids, the genes from your maternal grandmother may not be included in the genes you pass on top your offspring.

In reality it gets a little more complicated, but this simple explanation is, I think, enough to show that if you go back far enough, you can have different people as your ancestors and there could be no real difference.

Have a read of this: https://gcbias.org/2013/11/04/how-much-of-your-genome-do-you-inherit-from-a-particular-ancestor/

"This gets worse the further we go back in time, your genome is broken up into more and more chunks, but this does not grow as fast as your number of ancestors. This makes it increasingly likely that you inherit no autosomal material from a particular ancestor."

 

[George the Intercessor]

No one is truly qualified to state how punishment should be enforced onto sinners, who have damaged those around them.
Suppose each sinner be given their own degree of punishment in the Pit.

 

[George the Intercessor]

Leave it to God for such decisions.

 

[durangodawood]

Is it moral to torture someone for eternity because of finite crimes?

Its not even moral to torture anyone for a short time.