"The scenarios which warrant them aren't just rare - they're nonexistent." Ok - make 'life sentence' actually 'life' i.e. 80 years, give it out for the most se

"The scenarios which warrant them aren't just rare - they're nonexistent." Ok - make 'life sentence' actually 'life' i.e. 80 years, give it out for the most serious crimes, and that might work. "there is no effect to adding more of them together, so it's entirely spurious to do so." For mass murdering psychopaths, there may be 'no difference' in 1 or 80 years. So by your logic 'they won't reform so skip prison'? No - punishment is a perfectly normal and reasonable reason to put people in jail. People who have been transgressed understand this usually better than others.