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Rehabilitation doesn't even get lip service any more. The word penitentiary has fallen out of use, not surprising given its derivation.
Agreed. The system is degenerating, all we can hope that it breaks down soon and out of its ashes something better emerges.
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It's good to see someone who puts so much effort into comments and participating genuinely in the community like this:
Lol!
Yeah, I think there is a fundamental contradiction between punishing people and rehabilitating people. Can't do both
Definitely not. They are two completely different views of life and their approaches requires a completely different energy. An impersonal system can punish people, no problem, but to actually guide them in their rehabilitation, you need actually human beings who care and feel a sense of personal responsibility and emotional investment.
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Interesting thoughts, but at the same time I'm rather confused in that I feel several lines of thought are opened and left open. The takeaway, I think, is that the 'criminal' should be treated as an individual, that maybe psychologists should honestly try to work with these people to understand them and help them to see their faults, and also work with the victim, and maybe even build bridges between victim and victimizer, maybe a store owner will understand why a poor person would steal from him, the social circumstances that led to it, and the need to change them, thus creating "an opportunity to make things better than then they were before the crime". All these things I understand, and am in favor of.
But I'm also a big fan of good ole revenge! :P Yes revenge isn't going to bring back your murdered child, but it's definitely not a good thing to let a rapist or killer roam about as he searches for his next victim. Revenge, evolutionarily, aims at getting rid of a certain kind of behavior, and is meant as a teaching tool. We may not think of it as revenge, but when mothers teach their children not to hurt each other by inflicting the same hurt on them (child A breaks child B's toy, so the parent takes away child A's toy so they're both toyless now), they're essentially performing an act of revenge. If you think about it, in a perfect world, what would revenge be like? Like, if you were a God, creating the cosmos all over again, how would you make it be? Very simple: every time I kick someone, I feel the kick. Every time I put out a cigarette on someone's flesh, I feel the burn. Pure, instant, revenge. I immediately know what I'm doing is bad. I'm spitting against the wind. I don't know how anyone could find moral fault with that scenario, and so any system that tries to recreate it (in the absence of a God) can't be faulted either.
I think we can find plenty of example where revenge creates its own wicked kind of society, but I think there is place for revenge in society. In any case, it is preferable for the person dispensing justice to feel its impact, rather than leaving it to a system, where responsibility is diffused and spread around.
What I don't like about revenge is its collectivist side, where "we" are wronged, so "we" take revenge. If someone kills my family member or a friend, I don't think there is anything in this world that should stop me from taking revenge, but revenge gets messy in real life because people are messy.
In theory, I have no problem with it. In practice, it would depend on what kind of a society we live in.
Yeah that's the problem, and maybe the only problem, that it's all good in theory, but in practice it would just be chaos, there's no way we could allow those things to happen, it would just be a total mess. The law tries to accommodate those kinds of cases with 'heat of passion' defenses, it's the best it can do.
Great article as I appreciate the share! We live in a heavily skewed society but most would never see it that way. The only absolute definitive there is would be math. Outside of that whatever conclusion came from the perspective (s) of others. Somehow the people decided to put the most skewed individuals in power to represent the majority...lol
true justice and liberty are two of the finest topics there are... and much abused ... peace