(August 17, 2018 at 12:10 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 17, 2018 at 12:03 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Is that the purpose of justice? Or is it just a crude means, chosen in a cruder time and susceptible to improvement, adopted in the hopes that it will contribute towards attainment of Justice?
It is the purpose of justice.
You guys are making a slippery slope fallacy.
I disagree. The purpose of Justice has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to the perpetrator. It has everything to do with reducing the likelihood of crime. What happens to the perpetrator is but an incidental means to the end.