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Wouldn't in many of those cases those funds be more needed by their victims to help restore a little of what was lost. Direct things like paying medical bills
by SkyBelow 3y ago
Wouldn't in many of those cases those funds be more needed by their victims to help restore a little of what was lost. Direct things like paying medical bills or supporting someone who can no longer work or less direct things like paying for therapy for someone who is now traumatized?
As for victimless crimes, do they really deserve prison to begin with and wouldn't we do better with alternatives, or perhaps even removing some of those laws entirely?
- connicpu 3y agoHaving a percentage of their pay going to reparations for any identified victims of their crimes seems like it would be a fair system, and much better than what currently goes on where these companies are pocketing all of the profits from their labor.
- feoren 3y agoThat sounds like a feel-good system that would be very difficult to implement in practice. It's very different for different kinds of crimes, and nitpicking over level of victimhood is not something the law seems very concerned about. It could open up a whole cottage industry of "Victimhood Optimization" where people get very good at claiming they were the victim of some nebulous crime, and deserve a payout. There are "victimless crimes" that are only victimless because everyone was lucky: a 3rd DUI, firing a gun in a crowded area but not hitting anyone, etc. Then there are crimes that have millions of potential victims: dumping toxic waste in a river, etc. It'd be an entire extra enigma the courts would have to figure out with every case. (I do think a big percentage of the "victimless crimes", like personal drug possession, should not even be crimes at all, but that's beside this point.)