• Intralexical@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t think people can ever change, eh?

    In this case, you’re betting future people’s lives on a known murderer changing.

    Disclaimer: I’m neither for nor against that.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’d rather a known murder have the opportunity to change and potentially be a better person than to only let them rot in a fucked up punitive system.

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        1 year ago

        A chance to change, sure. But it would be a mistake to pretend it’s not also a chance to kill again. And it turns out people actually can’t change, meaningfully, without remorse for their past deeds— And you can’t ever actually know whether they feel that. Mercy feels very good until you realize ten years later how much pain you could have avoided otherwise.

        Also, you’re presenting a false dichotomy between “Set them loose on the world” versus “Isolation and torture for the rest of their life”.