Are Punishments Really Idealistic?

[Slimebeast]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Jay520 said:
Your plan would make sense if we could somehow read other people's minds to determine if they were truly regretful. Unfortunately, we don't have an accurate method to make that assessment. And even if a person is truly regretful, that only describes their current state of mind. We have no way to determine how they will feel in the future, so we can't know if they will commit future crimes or not; that would require a time machine.

We wouldn't need to read their minds if the rehabilitation truly was perfect.

In many (if not every) civilised countries part of stopping crimes from recur is to find out why the crime was commited in the first place. A poor upbringing can be one reason, poor economy can be another, mental disabilities or shortcomings can be yet another, even the inclination of taking a risk without expecting a crime to occur can be areason, but what all cases have in common is that they can be treated, or at least be dealt with to prevent future crimes. Different forms of treatment can compensate for a poor upbringing, poverty and mental illnesses.

This is ridicilous. You only describe criminals as being victims.