Reply #81: coherency, please

[iverglas]

... imprisoning him for a long, long time to prevent this crime from happening again.

What, really, are the odds that, if left at liberty, this guy is going to do this again -- follow this woman, or some other girlfriend of his who denies that he is a party to her pregnancy, to an abortion clinic and shoot her?

Isn't that kinda Groundhog Dayish? Wouldn't there have to be a hugely improbable confluence of circumstances, virtually to the point of an actual rift in the fabric of space and time having opened, for this event to be replicated?

So, given that it is so extremely unlikely that "this crime" would ever be committed again by him (which I'm assuming you meant by "happening again") no matter what was done or not done to him, how can you assert that imprisoning him for a long, long time would be either designed to prevent or effective to prevent it?

And why are you suddenly so worried about it happening again, and yet so apparently unwilling to agree that anything be done to prevent it from happening the first time??

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