by D-LOGAN » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:40 pm
Well personally I'm of the OPINION, (not a statement of fact that I'll be backing up with evidence mind you, I've zero interest in taking part in those such shenanigans here) that the way a justice system in a society should work in response to an individual breaking a law is a three tiered system, which in order of importance are:
1) Punishment- Prison time, fines, barring orders, community service etc.
2) Protecting the public from said offender- although that may not be necessary in the cases of some crimes and infractions, and since in any society I'd agree with, stuff like torture, mutilation, humiliation etc. would be out of the question, but since punishment may be segragating the offender from the public for whatever the prescribed amount of time for said infringement, it would cover the same purpose as this. So two birds with one stone in this case.
3) OFFERING the chance at rehabilitation- key word there being offering. You can't force someone to rehabilitate, you can only give them the chance, which you should. But if they don't want it, so be it. If someone robs a bank and then at the end of their sentence goes "just so youse all know, I'm not the least bit sorry about what I did, I enjoyed it, if I lived it over again I'd have done the same thing. And to be 100% clear, I'm not the least bit rehabilitated and I'm worse now than when I went in."
Well then the only thing to say then is "okey doke" and let them go, they've served their time after all. Assuming they're saying this when they're literally at the end of their sentence and not during their parole hearing that is.
*And obviously there'd be certain crimes that'd be exceptions to this of course, but I'm just generalizing for effect, you get it*
As far as I'm concerned, reducing crime itself in society is a different matter. To be handled through things like social and education programmes and reach-outs and charities and whatnot. But at the end of the day, IMO a victim and society should have a right to expect some form of punishment fit for the severity of the crime in question, or fuck that society frankly. I'll build a new one.
And if someone deliberately and without my consent (not that I'd give anyone consent of course) infected me with HIV or any such serious illness, or assaulted me in any such serious fashion, I'd want the fucker to get more than a misdemeanor quite frankly. I'm a little touchy that way.
Not just yet, I'm still tender from before.