Catharsis helps nobody. The key to stopping crime and misdeeds is with empathy and welcomeness. Judgement and punishment makes people hide, not stop, and once the karmic thrill wears off everyone is in a worse place than before. You may not want to co-operate with or try to understand a murderer or burglar, but it is the only viable method of actually stopping immoral actions for good rather than either having them cloaked in increasing layers of shadow that will leave more and more people at risk, or forcing someone to live a sad and painful life behind bars while the world cheers.
i’m always open to helping people instead of punishing them if it makes them change their behavior, but I always have the hutch that many people are commiting crimes and doing harmful thing such as smoking and drug abuse because they are evil and malicious, and will continue to do misdeeds and crimes after you offer help because they like this lifestyle. and as a result should be punished. Also, maybe automatically being known as a THIEF willmake you want to change yourself, while getting away with stealing will want to make you steal more
we should never force people to die especially if it makes them murder more because they have nothing to lose at that point. But they should learn things the hard way instead of us being kind to them. For all you know, they could be continuing this behaviour because you continue being kind to them but will stop once you give them a wake up call.
If you’re not going to change your behavior, or treat people the way you want to be treated, why should we keep on treating you nicely?
in the Serious Discussion board about punishment and death
Yea it’s getting out of hand. Like you said in another one of your threads, he seems obsessed with legally killing people and not actually dealing with the real issues at hand, or at least addressing them. Like… how is he not banned?!?!?!?
the aggressive panhandling one, I read lots of stories of beggars who get aggressive because they like this lifestyle. It always feels wrong to me that we are killing them but I felt like sending them to jail i
The man who wanted to commit suicide and two animals were shot dead to save his life, I wanted to know why should we always prioritize a human’s life over an animal’s life instead of it being case by case, especially considering that we kill animals for food, clothing
The smoking one, I’m always in favor of helping you get off your addictions but like aggressive begging, I don’t want you to be insincere when you say you will stop and judging by the actions of many people I observed, it doesn’t sound like they want to stop.