I think it’s an oversimplification to say that many people just give up and start being arseholes. I think most of it is education and their treatment and experience in their formative years including in utero. They either don’t or can’t think through the full consequences of their choices or they’ve been conditioned to think the shitty action is fine.
People can be educated or reeducated at any age which can help them understand why their actions might suck.
Fixing a person broken by fetal alcohol syndrome or years of mental or physical abuse is a lot harder if it’s even possible at all.
Does branding them or murdering them benefit society? How are we any better than those people we branded or murdered, should we then not be branded or murdered ourselves for doing objectively evil things? Where does it end?
Certainly people who do bad things should be imprisoned, but the goal should be rehabilitation rather than retribution.
Peacetime is a lot different than war where it’s kill or be killed, but war crimes are a thing for a reason. The Nazis did some truly horrific things, but the Americans murdered 2 million odd Vietnamese in the Vietnam war, many of them civilians, many of them suffering horrible deaths being burned alive or being doused with agent orange, should we also start carving symbols into the faces of Americans because they supported horrible things, or even just not giving individuals a chance for rehabilitation?
I think it’s an oversimplification to say that many people just give up and start being arseholes. I think most of it is education and their treatment and experience in their formative years including in utero. They either don’t or can’t think through the full consequences of their choices or they’ve been conditioned to think the shitty action is fine.
People can be educated or reeducated at any age which can help them understand why their actions might suck.
Fixing a person broken by fetal alcohol syndrome or years of mental or physical abuse is a lot harder if it’s even possible at all.
Does branding them or murdering them benefit society? How are we any better than those people we branded or murdered, should we then not be branded or murdered ourselves for doing objectively evil things? Where does it end?
Certainly people who do bad things should be imprisoned, but the goal should be rehabilitation rather than retribution.
Peacetime is a lot different than war where it’s kill or be killed, but war crimes are a thing for a reason. The Nazis did some truly horrific things, but the Americans murdered 2 million odd Vietnamese in the Vietnam war, many of them civilians, many of them suffering horrible deaths being burned alive or being doused with agent orange, should we also start carving symbols into the faces of Americans because they supported horrible things, or even just not giving individuals a chance for rehabilitation?