psychicscubadiver said:
I've got questions about a lot of what you said, but I'll restrict myself just to this passage. So, just to be sure I understand you correctly, if a gang leader or mob boss sells drugs, traffics kids, and guns down a dozen people for opposing his organization, but he isn't clinically insane, just completely immoral, it would be morally wrong to lock him up in prison. He should be able to just pay a fine? |
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not quite what my point was, though I also didn’t communicate it very well and honestly did misrepresent my belief a bit. To revise what I said: If we’re talking about a mob boss, serial killer rapist, war criminal, etc., yeah those ppl need to be locked up. If we’re talking about individual crimes (i.e. crimes not committed with the assistance of an organization and such), I do believe rehabilitation is far better than punishment. Ppl don’t commit crime for the fun of it, they do it b/c they have hit a point where they feel this is the only means to survive and/or mental health issues. By giving these ppl the help they need, i.e. by tackling the issue at its root, you have a far happier society. There are countries in EU which utilize this rehabilitation-over-punishment approach, and it is very successful (in particular, with getting crime down).
