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> A good place to start is to shift the very conception of "justice" from "make the bad guy pay" to "make the victim whole." I'm a full supporter of the eye-fo
by deogeo 8y ago
> A good place to start is to shift the very conception of "justice" from "make the bad guy pay" to "make the victim whole."
I'm a full supporter of the eye-for-an-eye school of justice as retribution, and I still find the US system far too severe and unfair (other countries' too, but less so).
I think people just have the wrong idea about how the system works (or doesn't), how terrifying it must be to be tried for a felony even if you're innocent. And for most felonies, with the exception of rape and (attempted) murder, even eye-for-an-eye would prescribe a far lower sentence.
What's needed isn't for the conception of justice to change, but for people to realize how broken the current system is.
- candiodari 8y agoSince the vast majority of crimes are committed by people with much less means than the victims, you cannot make the victim whole. If you think otherwise: courts are public, go and sit in one a few hours. This idea that perpetrators can make victims whole, even partly, won't surive 30 minutes.
- deogeo 8y agoDid you mean to reply to my parent post? Because 'eye for an eye' is certainly not intended to make the victim whole.