The Human Rights of Child Killers.

[IAN 2411]

Harsh punishment is not revenge, it is justice

I'd like to be clearer about the distinction as you see it.

If someone breaks my arm, and I break theirs, I call that revenge, and I guess you do too.

If someone breaks my arm, and I take them to court and the judge orders that a policeman should beak their arm, is that what you call justice? Or just state regulated revenge?

Leo9, I understand what you are saying, but what you suggest is revenge and brutality and has no place in society. Neither is it anything remotely parallel to what I suggested.

Be well IAN 2411

[leo9]

Leo9, I understand what you are saying, but what you suggest is revenge and brutality and has no place in society. Neither is it anything remotely parallel to what I suggested.

You suggested:

Life meaning life with hard labour, and I really do mean hard labour. Work in the open in all weathers regardless of conditions, and twelve hours a day seven days a week. No Sunday let off for religious purposes, because if they really were that way inclined they would not have broken Gods commandment. Wooden huts in compounds to live in and with bare heating essentials, quarries were their menial task helps pay for their incarceration. Wholesome food to keep the body alive but not to satisfy the pallet, a doctor as the only right they have but only to lawfully keep them alive. Give them a minimal show of hell that through their warped minds they have given their victims loved ones.

So now we know what you don't consider to be "brutality." Do you imagine that the discipline in this Gulag would be a sharp telling off? Or would you just appoint plenty of tough macho guards, tell them to keep order and keep up the output, and just not look to see how they were doing it? Because, after all, these people have no rights.