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thanks for the well thought out reply! this case got me thinking, clearly Holmes needs to be punished for wrong doing, clearly there also needs to be a deterre

thanks for the well thought out reply! this case got me thinking, clearly Holmes needs to be punished for wrong doing, clearly there also needs to be a deterrence, and yet the trade off in damaging the life of an innocent seems unnecessary for me. What kind of penalty would serve the first two aims yet not result on the third?

fasthands9 4y ago
Are we even sure that a child would be better off with a woman who is a pathological liar? You could easily argue the type of woman who would choose to get pregnant when staring down a ten year prison sentence is exactly the type of woman who would not be a good mother. I would still argue you are to fixated on the singular case of the child. The harm Holmes did here effected hundreds if not tens of thousands of people extremely negatively (think of all the years/funding for bio research thrown down the toilet) and any future deterrence of behavior like this is worth it.