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Originally Posted by myrrh
If it is about the flogging, then I have no issues with flogging as a punishment. Everyone talks about this being barbaric, but the reality is this type of punishment works to stop crime.
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please provide evidence to back up this "reality". Generally speaking, I think it's more realistic to say that no form of punishment has ever served (or worked very well) to stop crime, but is rather a form of retribution by society.
If a person is going to kill someone, it hardly matters if the punishment is 15 years in prison or a good old public flogging, neither is gonna deter him from his act.
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As of 2007, 7.2 million Americans were incarcerated, on probation or parole. This is 1 out of 100 Americans, which is the highest rate in the world. These numbers are signs of a dysfunctional society.
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Actually I think they are signs of a dysfunctional justice system more than a dysfunctional society in general.
Most of these people are incarcerated for drug-related offenses because we've collectively decided that smoking certain plants is a crime. And in the USA they take this crime just a little bit more seriously than in most other western countries (europe).
I think if something like cannabis use and posession would be completely decriminalised you'd see that incarceration rate drop quite rapidly to more normal levels.