(May 20, 2020 at 5:40 am)WinterHold Wrote:(May 20, 2020 at 2:30 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Keep it coming. As long as you are posting BS here, you can't chop off other people's hands. By all means, stay inside, let your hate flow, but don't hurt other people. It's safer for everyone if you stay inside.
What you fail to understand is that cutting hands for thievery is better than throwing the convicted in a concrete cell for 15 or 20 years straight. Prison is a barbaric sentence in its own account; and worthy of Middle Ages and devastating to one's psychological state.
(May 20, 2020 at 2:30 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Keep it coming. As long as you are posting BS here, you can't chop off other people's hands. By all means, stay inside, let your hate flow, but don't hurt other people. It's safer for everyone if you stay inside.
You speak about severed hand being "irrepressible"; but so as "severed years from one's age".
First off, no one is sent to prison for 15-20 years for lifting a box of pencils or a stick of gum (not in civilized countries, at least). Different degrees of theft merit different penalties. Yet you clearly said earlier that the level of the theft doesn't matter - you would cut off a hand over a stick of gum (bar forgiveness, which is beside the point).
Mister Agenda brought up wrongful conviction earlier, and you haven't addressed it. I'd like you to do so now.
Suppose Joe is accused of stealing a packet of sticky notes from his office. He is fired and the company decides to prosecute. Joe is convicted and has to pay a small fine (and look for another job). Later, it is discovered that Joe didn't steal the stickies after all. He is reinstated in his job and his fine is remitted to him.
How would your system replace his hand?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson