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SecondWar on 06 April 2018
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contestgamer said:
SecondWar said:

So your argument is it doesn't matter if we get it wrong mutilate an innocent person and we already get it wrong sometimes now? That is not a good or reassuring arguement at all.

You may find it marginally decreases overall shoplifting incidents, but would probably increase incidents where excessive force is used. If more organised thieves know the consequence of getting caught is mutilation, they'd be more likely to murder witnesses and destroy video evidence (i.e. Arson) to cover their tracks. Maybe not a great trade off.

Also, I don't like the idea of governments sanctioning mutilation of its own citizens, criminals or not.

 Mistakes will always happen but with cloud storage cameras etc its less likely criminals will be able to sabotage in the future. If a case is cut and dry and we have forensic or video evidence of crime then we should go to the max punishment possible in public sphere and do it quickly. I believe it would be a deterrent. And again if I'm proven wrong then we change the system but the current one is not effective so I believe we should at least test alternatives like the Philippines are doing and get data.

For me at least, your arguement lost all credibility when you cited the vigilante justice system of Duterte's Philippines. That is not justice, that's a mob under a different name.