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What is the concrete benefit of simplicity in this context, and how do you quantify whatever that benefit is? Becaue the cost is both clear and intensive: Depr
by mapgrep 9y ago
What is the concrete benefit of simplicity in this context, and how do you quantify whatever that benefit is?
Becaue the cost is both clear and intensive: Depriving a human being of liberty for additional years or decades. This should be done only when absolutely neccessary, should it not? We disapprove of imprisonable offenses intensely, but these are still human beings, with rights. It seems to me a humane system does not inflict thousands of cumulative additional incarceration years merely to keep the implementation of justice “simple.”
- zarkov99 9y agoSimple in the sense that if you can identify this 1%, keeping them locked up or otherwise away from the rest of society longer will very effectively reduce crime. There is no way that therapy is going to be as effective. We are talking about repeated violent offenders here, really dangerous individuals. Of course they are still people but their happiness is secondary to keeping them from repeatedly inflicting harm on innocents.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>keeping them locked up or otherwise away from the rest of society longer will very effectively reduce crime. The problem with this is it only looks at the problem from a maintenance perspective rather than a preventative root cause analysis. Like adressing the relationship between cyclical poverty and cyclical incarceration