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DarkLight said:
At my darkest moment I thought the best penalty would be to put the criminal in jail for life, but pick the best, most successful person in the criminals immediate family and put THEM to death by the same method the killer used..
That to me seemed fair. Killing a useless criminal is no punishment at all.
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Dark, I've worked with a few of these guys. Many of them are so ego-centric, (I'm talking 4 year old level here, regardless of intellect) that they would consider a member of their family taking their penalty to be preferable. Not all to be sure, but more than decent people outside of the system can imagine. The kind of people than can bring themselves to victimize others suffer, as you can imagine, a significant deficiency in empathy. It hard for the average person to concieve of such a mentality because the average person is a decent empathetic human being and, to their credit, are prone to projecting those characteristics on others.