Active Users:787 Time:10/06/2026 08:06:48 AM
there is a reason they call it the justice system and not the rehabilation system random thoughts Send a noteboard - 05/03/2010 11:33:55 PM
I guess if you assume the only reason to imprison is to rehabilitate them it might make some sort of sense but the justice system does more then that. The victims and the families of the victims are ask to not seek their own justice and to allow the court system to seek it for them. It isn't just to keep them from doing it again.


The responsibility of the victims not to seek revenge is no different from their responsibility not to break any other law. It has nothing to do with how the justice system should treat the prisoner. Otherwise, if you are referring more to the victim's rehabilitation, then you are just changing the perspective, not the question. So let it be the victim who needs rehabilitation before the prisoner is released. For every prisoner there is (or should be) a victim. So you still end up making educated or uneducated guesses about how< rehabilitated the victim must be for it to become practical or ethical to release the prisoner.
Reply to message
A level-of-comfort question regarding imprisonment of mixed innocent and guilty groups. - 05/03/2010 02:39:53 AM 328 Views
100% - 05/03/2010 03:47:31 AM 214 Views
Law of averages says there are certainly many innocent people in prison. - 05/03/2010 04:09:41 AM 200 Views
Doesn't matter - 05/03/2010 04:22:19 AM 189 Views
It does, in so far as it makes appeals a necessary option. - 05/03/2010 04:35:13 AM 192 Views
Did I say they weren't? - 05/03/2010 05:52:18 AM 219 Views
Nope. - 15/03/2010 06:14:33 AM 170 Views
You know Scalia said something like that last year - 05/03/2010 04:37:00 PM 197 Views
'Something'? Quotes are nice - 05/03/2010 05:07:00 PM 182 Views
Clarification: X% of them definitely did not meet the standards of reasonable doubt. - 05/03/2010 09:44:09 PM 174 Views
It's a pointless question - 06/03/2010 06:36:08 AM 173 Views
I never really liked silly questions like this - 05/03/2010 02:23:36 PM 206 Views
If there were 2,000,000 innocent and only 1 guilty, retrying everyone would not be practical. - 05/03/2010 09:22:16 PM 179 Views
That's silly though - 05/03/2010 09:39:53 PM 186 Views
Re: That's silly though - 05/03/2010 11:11:50 PM 193 Views
Re: That's silly though - 06/03/2010 12:11:06 AM 177 Views
Re: That's silly though - 06/03/2010 04:30:20 AM 170 Views
The answer is not "I don't know" it's - 07/03/2010 08:50:50 AM 169 Views
what does the chance of reoffending have to do with guilt? - 05/03/2010 10:02:21 PM 166 Views
Debt can be paid off, leaving the question of rehabilitation. *NM* - 05/03/2010 10:32:38 PM 67 Views
I still don't see the realtionship to guilt - 05/03/2010 10:59:28 PM 159 Views
Re: I still don't see the realtionship to guilt - 05/03/2010 11:31:51 PM 173 Views
there is a reason they call it the justice system and not the rehabilation system - 05/03/2010 11:33:55 PM 190 Views
It's called all kinds of things - 06/03/2010 12:02:00 AM 187 Views
Re: It's called all kinds of things - 06/03/2010 05:44:32 AM 176 Views
Well, we aren't going to agree at all (and I DID say it was opinion) - 07/03/2010 09:00:37 AM 151 Views
there is no perfect system - 05/03/2010 04:58:16 PM 183 Views
Reason Article inside - 05/03/2010 10:34:40 PM 214 Views

Reply to Message