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hi Everyone. I just wanted to get people's thoughts on this statement.
"Punishment for criminals is nothing more than a form of revenge."
Do you agree or disagree.
Thanks
it depends on wether that punnishment involves rehabilitation as well. if so, then I disagree. because the criminal is given another chanc3e, but in the case of things like capitol punnishment, there is no chance given. this is nothing more than revenge that is leagle
um and just why should the criminal be given another chance? Where is the second chance for the person or person's they killed. Or even the child the raped. that poor child has to live with that the rest of there life. So of course the bastards should be punished. call it whatever you want to call it, it still needs to be done! let them rot in jail. you may call that revenge. I think it's mor like justice! Hmm, and as far as rehabilitation? What good is that going to do? they go through classes and all that crap, get out and do it again. What kind of rehab is that? Yeah, there my be less harsh offenses and yeah, they should get some sort of rehab, like drugs. I think they should get the help they need. so each offense should be looked at different.
problem is though, they don't rot in jail. they come out in 20 years time bitter and twisted and commit the same crime again, i.e., they come back with a vengance. Something is obviously a miss for one human being to take the life of another, particularly when based purely on racial differences. For many, this is lack of education. I don't know that a 20 year jail sentence is the answer.
wwell, jail terms are not just the answer. it has to start in school. education must be a lot better, then there might be less crimes, and less call for punnishment.
hmmm, yeah, although education may help a bit. um I don't think it's going to solve the problem either. Look at sex ed class. How much do they stress safe sex. . Do you think teens listen to it? They were educated in it,but most are not going to practice it. And the drug thing, they tell you what drugs can and will do to you body. That sure doesn't stop kids from going out and trying it. I know just because a teacher told me about it, i still wanted to find out on my own. and i'm sure lots of kids at school age don't plan on going out and killing or raping someone else. it just happens. Then where did the education get them? hmm, back in jail! I guess they can sit in jail educated. wow! hehehe
the punishment should fit the crime, I don't think drugs should land someone 20 years in prison. murder should be a life sentence unless in cases of self defense. multable murders and or serial killers, or the tim mcvey types. are unrehabbable and should face death.
I do believe in second chances but if someone is being sentenced to the electric chair and they have a long record behind them. Why should they get another chance?
I don't think calling it revenge is valid at all. The crime wasn't committed against the state, the people effected by the crime, whether they were robbed, injured, made to feel unsafe, raped, whatever, aren't the ones dealing out punishment. State justice systems have nothing to do with revenge. They're about correctional responses to unacceptable behaviour, with the goals of removing criminals from society, or changeing the behaviour of criminals. Whether the methods work or not is another question, but revenge really isn't the issue.
I'd have to say it is a form of revenge.. revenge for the crime they committed, however, some forms of so called "punishment" shouldn't be considered revenge especially when a man that beats his wife repeatedly for 9 years and rapes her on two occasions is looking at a minimum sentence of 2 years for his crime even when that "man" (if you can call him that) is a previous offender in not only the domestic violence aspect but other various criminal activity and has 2 prior felonies on him. So, to answer your question, sometimes it is revenge and sometimes it can't even be considered justice.
I think it would be revenge only if the victim were the one doing the punishing. Then again, I think in some cases the victim should be allowed to punish the criminal as he or she sees fit; then it would be justice.