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People tend to care more about their kids than they do about teachers. A lot of people even support the death penalty, even though it obviously means innocents
by rebuilder 7y ago
People tend to care more about their kids than they do about teachers. A lot of people even support the death penalty, even though it obviously means innocents will also be executed at times. Justice and punishment is always a balance, where hopefully an optimum is found where the least people suffer.
- pengstrom 7y agoPunishment as justice is medieval though and is not accepted in civilised societies.
- xorand 7y ago... except in the movies.
- rebuilder 7y agoI don't know of any society that has a justice system without a punitive aspect to it.
- Ma8ee 7y agoThe difference is that the punishment isn't supposed to in some way make up for, or balance the crime. In a modern society the punishment is for deterrence and rehabilitation.
- rebuilder 7y agoThat's laudable, and what most people in the justice system probably work for. But go and talk to the people that system serves, i.e. the public, and I think you'll come out with a different understanding of what purposes punishment in the justice system serves. Not to mince words, we've managed to humanize the justice system to a large extent, but by no means have we been able to remove the desire of the public to see criminals humiliated and deprived of their freedom, even lives, on tit-for-tat moral grounds. So, while the justice system in many 'civilized' countries does the best it can to be rational, in order to keep the public happy, it also needs to be seen to be sufficiently harsh on crime.