Sounds great until you find out through mew evidence they never did the crime, sometimes decades later.

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they deserve it but we can’t consciously do that to someone

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This type of thought is based on emotions rather than logic. If someone harms someone else, and the perpetrator is harmed back as punishment, then end result is that two people have been harmed. I think a more reasonable solution would be reform the perpetrator into someone who does no more harm, e.g. remove them from society until they are ready to make positive societal contributions.

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I’m with both of you simultaneously. I crave the justice but know that those in power are never fully trustworthy

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