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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (431833)	7/23/2003 11:29:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

There is nothing sadistic in thinking that people deserve punishment not primarily for the reduction of crime, but because they have to pay for the evil they have done. I suppose for literal sadism people would have to be fascinated and excited by the punishement. Unfortunately many people are. "Paying for the evil done" does no good in reducing crime. There is some merit to behavior modification through aversion training (i.e. do the crime and do the time). There is no advantage to trying to extract a pound of flesh just to set some cosmic karma in balance. You may think that it is a difference of semantics only, but for any case where the justification falls only to revenge a mistake has been made. TP