08-28-2006, 09:32 PM
Quote:What a funny dichotomy you're creating - are you even reading what you type before you post it? I was exaggerating...but it happens often!
Are you getting winded backpedaling so much? I know I need to take a breather when I read this drivel.
Once again you jump to the assumption that punishment not tough enough = violence.
I can play the random fact game too! Fact is that there is no evidence that lessening punishments for crimes will lessen the amount of crime either! You'll also notice that I never - at any point - made the claim that prison time was to prevent crime or lessen the crime rate.
The thread started with a situation, apparantly widespread, of systematic abuse in prisons. I can understand a tough punishment (decided by a judge) but the government that uses these punishments should make sure, that is it. Being raped may never be seen as just an extra punishment fo 'those who deserve it'. As a lot of crime is committed by people that have been to prison already, you can feel that there is something not right.
I know you never claimed that prison time was to prevent crime or lessen the crime rate, but I do. Because it should.
About that exaggerating I guess I used the wrong word. I merely reacted on Occhi's lines which I found a bit of a populist way to explain things...and that is exactly the way I reacted. You should have taken that breather 3 reactions earlier.:D