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Originally Posted by savmesom11
Ustwo - You may be one of those perfect citizens I have read about but correct me if I am wrong, in the US we are supposed to be working toward rehabilitation. How on earth do you see people contributing (lawfully) to society if we continue to punish them long after their sentence has been served?
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IMO it's not just about being perfect but about NOT committing the crime in the first place. Deterence is an important thing in my book. People tended to behave in Singapore at the threat of capital punishment of caning.
In the city of NYC it is a felony to assault a bus driver. It is a feloy to assualt a flight attendent, would you consider them any different than assualting you or me? Why is assaulting them a more "powerful" crime than assualting me or you?
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