Your position, to the extent you had one, was that reducing length of prison term is good because people serve sentences that are too long. My point was that this analysis is both purely subjective and, as you know nothing about the actual statistics, based on nothing concrete.
You don't lash someone three times - you move on to one of the other punishments on the list that does have (permanent) incapacitative effects
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Restitution doesn't have incapacitative effects, so that just leaves hanging. And our current legal system is chock full of obstacles against that.
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Obviously our current legal system needs replacement - it's the result of a war between people who are ideologically committed to favoring policies that maximize crime and people who try to mitigate the harm of that by creating work-arounds (
@Steve_Sailer 's ex of the drug war) - Show replies
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