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And plenty of people have life sentences for non violent crimes that don’t even involve theft.
by olliej 3y ago
And plenty of people have life sentences for non violent crimes that don’t even involve theft.
- DoughnutHole 3y agoAnd that’s generally an awful failure of justice.
- olliej 3y agoOh absolutely, but I realized another way to think about SBF's sentence: Imagine this scenario: 1. Scammer defrauds a person for $$$ 2. Scammer is caught 3. Scammer goes to jail 4. Scammer gets out 5. Scammer goes back to step 1 vs 1. Scammer defrauds 5 people <repeat the same sequence as above and then return to defrauding 5 people> vs 1. Scammer defrauds 50 people until you get to thousands of people and companies a la SBF The first case of one scam at a time will end up spending more time in jail than SBF despite defrauding far fewer people. Is that fair/just? We have plenty of other crimes where we consider the penalty for many crimes at once to be the same (if not worse) than count * penalty, so it's not just.