Jay520 on 25 June 2012
| MDMAlliance said: I think we should still blame criminals for their actions, but not take it so far as to give them death threats like Americans love to do so much. |
It really doesn't matter if we blame them. Regatdless of if they are responsible for their actions, we still need to punish & contain them. Punish them so that they hopefully want to avoid committing the crime again. Contain them so they won't hurt more people.
In a perfect world, we would have amazing doctors who could detetct the psychological problems with every individual criminal, but we don't live in a perfect world. It's not practical at all to try and 'fix' the millions upon millions of criminals we have. Espescially with some who may have problems where we don't even know if we can fix - The OP mentioned genetics as a factor of some people's criminal actions. It's quite possible that these genetics are incurable, yet how would we know if a criminal had these genetics? Where would we even start? How many years would it take to analyze every criminal? And what if new criminals have new problems?
Our current set up is the most practical. Send them to jail. Our feelings for them our pretty much irrelevant to the situation. We can feel as we want to feel. As long as we don't act on our feelings, but on practicality. I'm sure there are a lot of well-disciplined people out there that share the philosophy of 'dont judge anyone'. Both religious and non-religious.
