Can Never Be Repaid Paying your debt to man or society. Society has ignored two of these debts, the emotional and mental damage to the victim as well as the loss to society. Society has ignored them partly because it cannot adequately measure them. This doesn't mean society is right to ignore these areas damaged and pretend it never happened, however. Acknowledging to the victim that society is aware of the damage inflicted upon them, as a minimum, provides the first step in comforting that very soul and alerts society and the one committing the act that there was more damage done than just the act itself.
Complete restitution is impossible to accomplish.
Since one can never totally repair the damage one causes to another soul nor to the souls of society as a whole, why would society or men attempt to even extract this magnitude of a debt from another soul. Capital punishment is society's means of extracting what it considers to be the ultimate form of restitution. In actuality, it is no form of restitution at all. Knowing this places an entirely different slant upon the concept of punishment. In a sense, the punishment one doles out becomes a punishment against oneself for we are truly all brothers as all religions teach.