(November 8, 2016 at 2:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(November 8, 2016 at 2:43 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: They killed someone, yes it was an accident but they knew that texting and driving a multi ton killing machine is dangerous. They made the decision that their text was more important than another life. It is no different than drinkin and driving. You kill a person and get community service and a fine?! How will that deter people from texting and driving? If people are texting and driving they already care about their own lives more than others. The idea of decades in jail is what deters people from doing illegal things, not picking up trash on the side of the road.-That's the deterrence motivation...sure...but..they also knew that they'd go to jail for texting and driving if they hit someone....and they still did it.
So, is it an effective deterrent, after all?
Theres the notion in that, implied but not directly expressed...that it's the rules and punishments that deter us from some x. Let me ask you, are the rules and punishments the reason that you don't murder...or is it simpler than that? Like, maybe, you don't want to? Conversely, if you did want to, would the existence of the rules and punishments stop you? If the rules could be removed or lessened from you...say you were placed in an active conflict zone and handed an assault rifle, would you? In a nutshell, are you a killer, and if so, always or only sometimes? If not....never? We're strange creatures.
This is fully just me and a one time scenario so I don't hold this to anyone else but yes, going to jail has stopped me from killing someone before. I literally held a knife in my hand and the only reason I didn't stab him in his sleep is because I didn't want to spend my life in jail. In the end he killed himself so I reckon good things come to those who wait? lol
But I understand where you are coming from in that people shouldn't need the fear of punishment to deter them from doing evil but some people do. Maybe not most people but what about the people that do hit and runs? They only look at it in the light of they will go to jail if they tell anyone. Instead of getting first aid and possibly saving the person they just leave. That happens way too often...
With THAT said maybe if the threat of going to jail wasn't there perhaps they WOULD stop and help...
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