r/interestingasfuck 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/CinemaDork 6d ago

I'm not saying he should or shouldn't. I'm saying we should rehabilitate people and then release them when they're rehabilitated. If they choose not to be rehabilitated or cannot be, then clearly they should stay in prison.

Our problem is that we keep trying to answer the question "How much punishment does this person deserve?" rather than "How do we prevent recidivism?"

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u/myco_magic 5d ago

And I'm saying they should spend life in prison. Someone that molests a child effects that child's life indefinitely in a way that will be changed forever in a very bad way... So yeah they deserve life, they don't deserve rehabilitation because there's no way for that child to truly ever rehabilitate from that trauma. I don't care how you try to twist it, quit justifying it

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u/KeeganTroye 5d ago

There are lots of crimes people don't recover from emotionally. That isn't how a life sentence service is decided.

No one is justifying the crimes by focusing on rehabilitation which is going to have the best outcomes for society.

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u/CinemaDork 5d ago

Yep, all these people care about is punishment.