• RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In cases where someone takes a life with malicious intent, I don’t care how old they are, they deserve to live the rest their life in a cage or strapped to a chair. Cruelty to the cruel is justice just as intolerance to the intolerant is progress.

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      1 year ago

      If you don’t believe in rehabilitation, the only reason prisons have to exist is punishment, and punishment for punishment sake is sadistic indulgence, not justice.

      • FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Raping and murdering someone is sadistic indulgence… punishing them for it is at least retribution if you want to argue that it’s not justice. Which I still think is a weak argument.

        Their victim and their family can’t ever be made whole, so I can’t see how letting the perpetrator off could ever be justice.

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        I believe in rehabilitation for all but (intentional) murderers. Our prison systems are a massive problem if their purpose is for corrections like their name implies because right now, yes, they’re for punishment and often through slave labor. American prisons as they exist are sadistic indulgence, but for those who kill without remorse, I can’t think of a better fate.