Some of the most commonly criticized ethical choices include treatment of women, religious intolerance, use of capital punishment as penalty for violation of Mosaic Law, sexual acts like incest,[32] toleration of the institution of slavery in both Old and New Testaments,[33] obligatory religious wars and the order to commit the genocide of the Canaanites and the Amalekites. Christian apologists support the Bible's decisions by reminding critics that they should be considered from the author's point of view and that Mosaic Law applied to the Israelite people (who lived before the birth of Jesus). Other religious groups see nothing wrong with the Bible's judgments.[34] Apologists also point to the fact that nearly without exception, these criticisms are refuted or negated by statements or doctrines made or clarified by Jesus in the New Testament.