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Originally Posted by Lee.
Dezzy, I'm a very forgiving person and always try to see good in people and I do think people are entitled to a fair hearing, but are you honestly saying you wouldn't feel vengeance if your own grandma was forcefully buggered by some evil little bastard?
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This isn't about me, iif you want to have a discussion about crime and punishment you have to put your emotions to one side otherwise your points will always be tainted by your emotional response.
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Originally Posted by Omah
OTOH, getting "touchy-feely" with psychotic sex-offenders is misguided, naive and futile .....
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I see, just because I don't share your, quite frankly disturbing, bloodlust I must be some sort of soft type who goes around hugging rapists and murderers.
Good logic.
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Originally Posted by Omah
IMO, it's a question of economics not misplaced idealism and morality .....
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Okay then let's live in your proposed world for a moment, in order to save money we kill the most vile of criminals, we then decide to save more money by then killing thieves, thugs, people with parking tickets ETC. If the Law is ruled by finance then it'll ultimately be ruled by greed in the end.
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What about their "betters"?
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But what about the Better's lesser's equals?
It's not difficult to throw out some cryptic meaningless crap to avoid a point.
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The resources for the "other options" would be better used for law-abiding citizens .....
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Because it's cheaper to simply imprison criminals? Your whole point about executions being a better option financially is ultimately flawed. In America it costs a lot more to execute someone then it would to imprison them since you have to go through years of appeals and court actions before you can execute anyone. It's cheaper to simply imprison someone and try to rehabilitate them so they aren't a danger to the public when (or if) they are released.
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Why waste money on violent criminals who will never change ?
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Like I said before it'd be a bigger waste of money to execute them. If you're going to imprison someone it's worth trying to rehabilitate them since it's better to try and fail then not to try at all. Not every Jail sentence is permanent so what's the problem in trying to rehabilitate someone so they aren't a danger to the public when they are released?