I support prison sentences only for drug smugglers/drug dealers, whose sins are great.
Indofred,
And if your children were to get involved in drug smuggling/drug dealing...for love, for partying at concerts, conned by the 'wrong crowd', etc?
I hope they aren't that stupid and greedy.
I'll make bloody sure they know right from wrong, unlike your drug killer (soon to be dead) bastards.
That's what all parents hope for.
They teach their kids right from wrong, but things can still go badly.
Here is Sukumaran's mother, and his sister and brother...
40m 17sec along [click on a drag timer]
Thanks
bianco
if people guilty of trafficking drugs and humans
had to spend their lives in hard labor to pay restitution to victims and society
then the children enslaved in factories could go to school and let these criminals work their jobs for them.
We could replace sweatshops and places that sell women to be raped,
and use the fines and labor to convert such places into schools, daycare, and health clinics.
There are more effective sustainable means of consequences
that could be kept proportional to the crimes.
otherwise once you are already sentenced to death,
what motivation do you have to stop committing more and more crimes.
If the punishment is the same whether you murder one person or five,
what difference does it make if you are already going to be dead anyway?
We need to invest in restitution that breaks the cycle of crime and poverty.
I am beginning to think it is a male thing, and using death and politics
to make a statement to show off to other men who is in charge or control.
Why is it that all the people pushing for meaningful restitution
are either women or pro-women's rights.
There is something about patriarchal politics that is censoring the solutions.
Thank you for standing up and saying there is a better way.
I think this is censored because it is an approach that makes
more sense to women working to rebuild communities, while men are conditioned to one up each other
to the death and don't care who has to pay the social costs of war they wage on each other.
to them, death is a political solution, when to women it causes more burden
and cost on the families and doesn't solve the root cause.
as long as women pick up the tab in society, what motivation
do the men have to stop these war games?
Until we make it "safe" for men to stand up for something different,
they are considered cowards if they don't kill the bad guy to make a public statement.
What craziness is this? No wonder humanity is in such a mess.