BobKowalski
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The legal system? So any person wanting a stronger punishment than this so called society(I would like someone to define society to me) must suffer from a lack of compassion? I don’t believe in the death penalty strangely enough but for a long time in this country the majority were in favour. By your argument millions of people must be incapable of compassion or humanity.
There are 2 main problems with both our way of seeing things. Yours would be that even though you know that innocent people will suffer the most dire consequences of this civilised society you accept this. In this respect you are showing less humanity than me. Possible future victims are your collateral damage and a price worth paying.
People and society evolves. Our attitudes towards a great many things have become less punitive, although our justice system is still partly stuck in the dark ages. Countries where the emphasis is on non custodial sentences and rehabilitation have lower crime rates. People sometimes resent this because they want offenders to ‘suffer’ even if this leads to higher crime rates. The wish for revenge or inflict suffering on those that bring suffering is a natural instinct but it is counter productive.
People on here refuse to show Begum compassion or empathy in part because she shows no compassion or empathy. How much this is due to her shutting down psychologically or a feature of her natural personality or whatever I have no idea but most people in horrorfic situations tend to cauterise themselves emotionally in order to survive.