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I think its easy to say that sitting in your chair from this side. I would imagine that if I was one of the people in the bank that was being robbed, and I were

• vacri 12y ago
  Do you think that because you and a colleague were held hostage ('kidnapped' is ridiculous, not even taken off-site) that it's worth each perpetrator getting about 30 years in prison? That that moment of fear is worth locking someone up for a generation and a half? That that moment of fear is even worth you paying taxes to keep that person locked up for that time? 30 years ago, the Cold War was still in full swing. Mutually Assured Destruction was still something people were afraid of. The world wide web was still about 10 years away. USA for Africa's "We Are The World" was just about to hit #1 in the charts. Big hair and legwarmers were fashionable. Half the people that use this site hadn't even been born yet. 30 years is an incredibly long time.
  • hunterloftis 12y ago
    Man, you layer it on thick. I just turned 30!
    • vacri 12y ago
      More big hair and legwarmers for you! Actually, I was thinking about it a bit more this morning, and found another interesting 30 year stretch: from the declaration of war in WWI to the close of WWII in Europe (VE Day) was about a month short of 31 years. Taking it to VP Day is about 1 month into 31 years. So both world wars and everything that happened in-between took 'only' 30-ish years. :)
• mikeash 12y ago
  There's a reason we don't let crime victims decide the punishment for the criminal. This stuff is supposed to be objective. (How well that's achieved is debatable, but that's the goal.) Bringing up the emotions of the victims is not a good argument.