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Originally posted by Azred:
font color = lightgreen>Very nicely stated; good points, both.
I know that many people have issues with the US not honoring the agreements Clinton signed, but an executive order is a far cry from a treaty; it does not have to be honored by any other sitting President.
I wish that there were not miscarriages of justice, but I must accept the fact that since we are not perfect that these will happen. Furthermore, I would like to see the mentally challenged protected from death penalties--they should be hospitalized instead. Finally, racial bias will be with us for centuries to come; let's just try to get past this as quickly as possible.
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So we should just accept that there is rampant racism in desciding who pays with their life, and who pays with their time?
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Originally posted by Azred:
Those statistics are correct. In fact, no form of punishment ever invented has been a successful deterrent to crime. Even in the harshest societies with the strictest punishments people still committed crimes on a daily basis.[/QB]
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Exactly, That is why we should focus less on the punishment aspect, rather we should focus more on the causes (i.e. rich poor gap, Poverty, Injustice etc) of crime, and helping to rehabilitate the offenders, as oppose to punishing them. For example you have someone who sniffs a little coke, don’t punish him or her, ask why he or she did it, and help him or her not to do it again.