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| Topic | One parent in that college admissions cheating scandal got sentenced to 6 months |
| ParanoidObsessive 11/17/19 2:36:15 AM #38: | Kyuubi4269 posted... So? If they earned it legitimately, they should get to keep it. Earning money through commission of a crime is the literal opposite of "legitimately". MICHALECOLE posted... Yeah thats not what jail should be for Jail arguably has three purposes: 1) Punishment - inflicting unpleasantness on an offender partly because "they deserve it", and partly as a deterrent to other potential criminals 2) Detainment - keeping criminals off the streets to prevent them from committing more crimes 3) Rehabilitation - encouraging people to not commit future crimes by giving them alternatives to doing so Realistically we should probably put the least amount of emphasis on the first one (since revenge/"justice" is kind of weak and deterrents rarely seem to work all that well in most cases) and the most emphasis on the last one (because turning a criminal into a law-abiding citizen means less criminals), but in practice we almost always do the reverse. We tend to be more vindictive than redemptive as a culture (which is also why ex-cons almost always have an extremely difficult time ever reintegrating back into society). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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