Is the verdict for Orestes really just? He really did murder his mother, but it was in revenge. Does that make it right? That depends on who's laws we are looking at. If we look at Athena's law, then obviously it is fine to murder in revenge. If we look at the law in the United States today, we see that people do not go unpunished when they commit murder. However, they may not spend their entire life in prison or receive the death penalty. If we look at God's law, we see that He is perfect and must punish us with death and hell when we break any of His laws. So, which is perfect justice? Perfect justice can only be given by a perfect judge, which no human can ever be. Athena was definitely not perfect either. Only God can be a perfect judge. It is interesting to me that we know what is right and what is wrong, but no one can perfectly carry out justice on anyone for any crime. Ironically, Orestes was trying to carry out his own justice when he killed his mother. So the whole question was whether or not his justification was just. So Athena gives her form of justice as her verdict for Orestes' crime. Yet after all that, neither of their justifications were perfect.
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