2/ Prison incapacitates, and maybe deters. Corporal punishment deters without incapacitation. I prefer exile, with the death penalty for returning without permission.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1332775067797819394 …
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Plays well in fiction, but of little use irl
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Why do you prefer incapacitation over deterrence?
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I wonder if there's a good discussion somewhere on how well deterrence works in different circumstances. Seems like it works terribly in some and well in others.
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In some of Nivens books criminals paid reparations with their organs.
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This is my "why doesn't Batman just give his enemies the Christopher Reeves treatment" argument but for society
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Tbh, I have a moral horror of prison as a concept, and think for most things a cat o nine tails is the solution. The royal navy kicked ass with the sweepings of inland jails by touching em up with the cat when they got out of line
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I think it is probably a mistake to see retribution & mercy as separate axes to deterrence/incapacitation & rehabilitation. They are the same things, seen from a different angle.
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Just retribution - deprive the criminal of any benefit from the crime, and make him suffer as he made others suffer - provides deterrence. But it has a stopping point, do not punish to an extent beyond the harm caused. This is more humane than a pure "deterrence"
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