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Re: Abortion, consistent with the LP stance? (Re: From Harry Browne
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:46:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> [Criminals] should be rehabilitated on their first time in. Not after they
> could reasonably be hardened criminals.
This assumes that criminals are caught upon their first infraction. A
criminal doesn't become "hardened" simply by spending time in the joint; a
life of criminal activity, inside or outside of prison, will harden someone
very effectively.
> First let's get some real compassion into our justice system. Maybe then we
> won't need much of a penal system.
I'm sensing what might be an inconsistency here; we (in general here on
OT.debate) accept that people are ultimately responsible for their own
actions, as long as they are unimpaired mentally. What compassion, then, is
due a so-called hardened criminal, or even a soft-and-cuddly criminal, who,
as a a self-responsible adult, has nonetheless chosen to flout the legal
system? I understand what you've said elsewhere about criminals working
somehow to satisfy their debt (to society, to an individual, etc.), but what
about the criminal who refuses to do so? You appear to have suggested that
the criminal will in some way "want" to work off his debt, but this seems
unrealistically optimistic.
How would a system accomodate and/or treat the criminal who is literally
unrepentant and who truly has no intention of working off his debt?
Dave!
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