"I see your point, but wouldn't harsher punishment act as a better deterant and help them help themselves!!!!"
You're assuming that the people doing this, have the mental ability to see what they're doing as wrong, and yeah, some of them probably do (which makes it worse),but some of them probably don't (which doesn't make it better).
Most of the time, incarceration for punishment isn't going to help anything. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be punished for it,they should,it's wrong,it's sick, it's immoral,but locking them up,and just leaving them locked up isn't going to teach them that what they've done is wrong.
A lot of people that do this sort of stuff are of lower IQ and social status then the majority of the population,statistically, as well as a load of other things. I'm not making excuses for them,**** no,but straight out punishment isn't going to DO anything. Lock them up, let them after after x amount of time and they're never going to do it again? Utter bollocks.
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