IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
The punishment is not the crucial part. The crucial part lies within the treatment. Punching a criminal may feel good to us personally, but it won't make the criminal realize that what he did was wrong. The treatment is all about making him come to that realization. |
Brehvik himself told the press he is a retributivist instead of an utilitarian as far as his view of justice goes. Rehabilitation may be an important part for a lot of misguided people, but it would seem like his psyche is too strong for him to ever let himself be manipulated as a The Sims character having his personality preferences being edited. It might be held as an insult to the individualism of the person in question.
Besides, if justice is held as the greatest ammount of happiness to the greatest ammount of people, up from trying to correlate the concept with well-being or freedom, or even Marxist theories of social meritocracy, the position of the individual plus the retributive answer to the society might be more important than the individual himself, as unfortunate as the implications might be...
