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Sufferedphoenix posted...

I don't agree with long sentences. It should be 5 years max or life no in between. Kinda hard to get back on your feet not only with the stigma attached but having decades of no real work expierence.

I agree with this, but those that are sentenced to 5 years or less need to be adequately helped to stand any chance of rehabilitation. I dont think that happens anywhere near enough.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Oh his sentence wasnt 28 years in one go. It was accumulated over most of his life. He was a standover man with a history of drug abuse and violence. Stuff that happens because people have unresolved trauma and get in with the wrong crowd, not because they wake up one morning and decide to be an asshole for the lulz (no matter what the public and tough on crime fascist politicians claim otherwise).

In fact a direct quote from one of my psyches: in my 15 years Ive encountered maybe one or two offenders at most whose actions were based solely on the desire to hurt people. Unfortunately this is difficult to talk about because it even applies to more serious offences and people will falsely accuse you of apologizing for them.

As always, the people who know things and the people who make the decisions have zero overlap.

Theres definitely a lot of factors at play in terms of why people commit crimes, but I dont believe that people who get off on hurting others are as rare as that. I will concede, as somebody who grew up in a household with major links to organised crime, my perspective may be skewed.