(September 22, 2016 at 3:43 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I understand the feeling of wanting that Thump, but I think it would be counterproductive. I don't think abuse directed at people makes them less abusive... I mean, offenders are often previous victims of abuse themselves I think?
But yes I understand the feeling and anyone who kicks a dog should go to jail for a very long time. Besides detainment they should have whatever form of punishment or rehabilitation required to make them less abusive... and they should only be let out when it's beyond reasonable doubt that they're actually never going to kick a dog again.
Anyway... how am I feeling right now... back to the relevance of the OP:
I don't really know how I'm feeling right now, in all honesty.
Even if punishment, as you put it, helped, I would advise against it. The state shouldn't be in the business of inflicting pain on its citizens, no matter the cause, with the only exception of having to obtain critical information, as in I would only agree with torturing terrorist suspects and such under very specific conditions(like if lives were at stake), but not anything else.