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Originally posted by KSig RC
you've declared that the man selected someone living the quintessential white lifestyle
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Good grief!
I didn't say this,
he did.
You know, why do you care how I prefer to see myself? I don't believe I ever said that the murder was justified. What I said was that we shouldn't give him what he wants by killing him. He's obviously gone off the deep end, so any "punishment" we try to give him won't do him or us any good.
I think violent criminals (rapists, murders, etc.) should be first psychologically evaluated to see if the punishment we give will even be a punishment to them. If it is found that they are so far out there that jail-time won't mean anything to them, they should go into a maximum security psych program until either 1) they come to their senses and realize what they've done so we can then effectively punish them or 2) they die.
We send people to jail as a form of discipline. The whole point is to put them into an uncomfortable situation so they will reconsider their paths and ultimately stop their criminal ways. Why else would we release some?
For people who are just gone mentally, what good does it do anyone to have them in a jail when society would be better served to have them placed in a program where they have a chance of understanding what they've done. That's what we're aiming for, right?