About 1% of the general population, and 25% of prisoners are psychopaths. This means that they are unable to care about others in any meaningful sense. Psychopa

About 1% of the general population, and 25% of prisoners are psychopaths. This means that they are unable to care about others in any meaningful sense. Psychopaths make decisions solely through a personal cost benefit analysis. On top of the psychopaths you have extremely disagreeable people who do understand the pain of their victims, but just don’t care about them, maybe 3-5% of the population. The only way to encourage these people to behave is to have an effective system that will punish them if they break the law. The expected return of crime needs to be negative to stop these extremely selfish people from engaging in it. Most people who believe in rehabilitation/restorative justice refuse to believe that such people exist. The existence of a rehabilitation system is not a deterrent and about 5% of the population would enthusiastically commit their “first crime” then enthusiastically enter the rehabilitation program. They would continue this cycle until they encounter a proper deterrent.