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I look at prison as separating people with anti-social behaviour from the rest of society. Rehabilitation/punishment for the individual is irrelevant.
by thret 16y ago
I look at prison as separating people with anti-social behaviour from the rest of society. Rehabilitation/punishment for the individual is irrelevant.
- barrkel 16y agoGood for you. I'm fairly sure a majority of people in my own country disagree with you, not least because its logical implication is that any crime which deserves any imprisonment at all deserves life imprisonment, since you have excluded both mechanisms that justify release: rehabilitation (which would "fix" the person) and punishment (which would deter the person). If prison is neither rehabilitating nor punishing, it must be permanent. But even then, it's more or less besides the point of the differences between consequentialist and deontological ethics, which seems to me to be at the heart of ideas about free will vs determinism, at least where they have a practical upshot.