RE: Prison as punishment
November 10, 2016 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2016 at 12:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That would be isolation. You put people in jail if you think that's the only way to stop them from doing "x". OFC, you've just assumed that this is so in the case of the texter who hits someone. I wonder what the rate of recidivism is for vehicular manslaughter? I bet it's pretty low, which puts the hot pokers to the claim that jail is the only way to stop them.
I think it's ironic that you decided to drop a line about not being petty just to argue, considering the rational that directly preceded that sentence. OFC there are people who will reoffend, or who will flaunt a ruling...but every "punshment" has it's flaws....so......
Unless were talking about those people, specifically, then what's the point? OFC something additional has to be done about people who are comfortable reoffending, people who put themselves into contempt or violate the terms of their probation. That;s sort of the point of probation. To see if a person can comport themselves lawfully for a set period of time...so that we -don;t- have to ruin their lives with a prison time for, say, an accident. Negligence, a momentary lapse in judgement not at all limited to them and currently being expressed by many others who aren't so much as on probation or even receiving a warning - who are still texting and driving even though they can see that guy go to jail.
Let me ask this another way, what does sending the man to jail do that taking his license, and yes..confiscating his vehicle as part of an on-going judgement against him.... doesn't do, with respect to people being killed by text-and-drivers, or this specific text-and-driver?
I think it's ironic that you decided to drop a line about not being petty just to argue, considering the rational that directly preceded that sentence. OFC there are people who will reoffend, or who will flaunt a ruling...but every "punshment" has it's flaws....so......
Unless were talking about those people, specifically, then what's the point? OFC something additional has to be done about people who are comfortable reoffending, people who put themselves into contempt or violate the terms of their probation. That;s sort of the point of probation. To see if a person can comport themselves lawfully for a set period of time...so that we -don;t- have to ruin their lives with a prison time for, say, an accident. Negligence, a momentary lapse in judgement not at all limited to them and currently being expressed by many others who aren't so much as on probation or even receiving a warning - who are still texting and driving even though they can see that guy go to jail.
Let me ask this another way, what does sending the man to jail do that taking his license, and yes..confiscating his vehicle as part of an on-going judgement against him.... doesn't do, with respect to people being killed by text-and-drivers, or this specific text-and-driver?
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