Bam wrote on Apr 13
th, 2017 at 1:11pm:
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Apr 13
th, 2017 at 9:16am:
Bam wrote on Apr 12
th, 2017 at 11:14pm:
Mandatory sentencing is a BAD idea. If the sentences for these offences is much the same as the sentences for murder, guess what's likely to happen?
Instead of this lazy "tough on crime" approach, why not get tough on the CAUSES of crime?
Yes bam 💥
And the Cause of repeated crime is the lack of punishment/deterrent
Incorrect.
The problem with you conservatives is that you live a very sheltered and comfortable suburban life that shields you from what's really going on in the world. You think all people committing crimes are rational people who would be deterred simply by increasing the sentences. Not all people are rational! Once you see just how irrational people get when they are high on methamphetamine, you would realise that this idea simply will not work.
We have a problem with methamphetamine addiction and this drug is one of the main causes of an increase in the crime rate.
No amount of deterrence will prevent such drug-fuelled crimes. Many of those:-
"conservatives that you live a very sheltered and comfortable suburban life"
.. are not rational. For proof positive look at the results from employing them to run corporations, companies and governments.
Do they have any idea at all?
"And the Cause of repeated crime is the lack of punishment/deterrent "
No - the cause of repeated crime is the lack of genuine opportunity, genuine standards in parenting and by extension society, and in the absolute despair of any meaningful outcome despite effort and input by the individual, the way this nation was founded on a punitive penal colony and the apparently never-ending focus of power as a means to control by a few at the expense of the majority.
No different from the Middle Ages and the reigns of the Robber Barons, nowhere more exemplified than with the Normans, who conquered England and then ultimately found that Justice did not and could not reside in the absolute hands of the conqueror or the one in power... an issue further exemplified by the English Civil War, and a number of socially upward for the majority movements in history.
As a nation, Australia needs to start again at Runnymede.....
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