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What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society? It isn't clear to me that an attempted m
by jlgreco 13y ago
What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society?
It isn't clear to me that an attempted murderer is less dangerous to society than a successful murderer (unless we assume that all failed murder attempts failed due to incompetence, but I don't think that is safe to say), surely they should both be kept off the streets for the same amount of time.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society? It could be argued that someone with both demonstrated bad intent and demonstrated capacity is still more dangerous than someone with equally bad intent that fails to demonstrate the capacity to successfully carry that intent into fruition.