Are Punishments Really Idealistic?

[IIIIITHE1IIIII]

Ji99saw said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Of course the last sentence is not based on reality. I've mentioned several times that I'm talking about an ideal world where what currently is impossible (such as being 100% sure that the criminal is sincerely sorry for its criminal acts) would be possible. Views based on an ideal world can only sound good on a paper, given how the real world obviously isn't ideal at the moment. You believe that I am naive to the world; I know that you currently are naive to the topic.

I'm spreading my views in the OP, and the purpose of this thread is for others to do the same and discuss them. Feel free to do so.

No, it will always be impossible as long as people are dishonest ans selfish what you say could never come to actually being a reality.

So do you believe that John Wayne Gacy (and others like him) should say "I'm sorry" and be allowed to walk the streets again?

Do you think people like that even care?

That use of the word "no" is incorrect. If I say that it is currently impossible to travel back in time, that is a correct statement. Even if we never will be able to.

If we are talking about an ideal world where we do know if a person is sorry and is regretting its actions, then yes. If he sincerely regrets all his criminal actions and wish he had never made them, why wouldn't we let him walk on the streets again? If it later turns out that he has changed his mind for whatever reason and that he is willing to kill again, that just means he needs further treatment due to new unpredicted events. If we assume that the treatment is perfect, him going back to becoming a killer would be no different from a random person suddenly showing tendenses of a serial killer. Him being a killer in the past would not matter if the treatment truly was perfect.

As for your last question: Yes. After a perfect treatment he would care. It's not a matter of what we "think".