Reply #43: "Has forgiveness without punishment lowered the crime rate anywhere...?"

[armyowalgreens]

I don't believe that was my point at all. But thank you for failing to understand what I meant.

Often incarceration/community service is needed to teach someone why their actions are wrong. But the punishment should not be for punishments sake. It should be used as rehabilitation.

I would agree with a mandatory period of rehabilitation. And then the prisoner should be released. That's assuming they aren't mentally ill. In that case, they may never get better. And in that case, the only real solution is permanent incarceration for societies sake. And that's assuming we don't obtain a method of curing severe mental illness in the future.

But that is assuming that our prison system actually attempts to rehabilitate. Which, for the most part, it doesn't.

As of right now, our "system" only serves to further criminal activity. Our prison systems breed criminals. Capitalism breeds criminals.

We are a society that holds selfishness to such a high regard. And then we wonder why crime is rampant.