Unjust, but why?

When I really sit back and look at it, I am amazed at this world. From the intelligence we’ve gathered and the technology we’ve produced, human beings as a whole are capable of some pretty amazing things. But in the words of Uncle Ben,” with great power comes great responsibility”. So, in this world that is not so far off from what ours may be hurling towards, technology is clearly advanced. This is proven when every night they erase the woman’s memory. I feel as though the further society progresses and advances, the more problems we will have to worry about. So many questions about the future arise just from this film. Is memory erasing a form of brain wash? Should it be illegal for a correctional facility to tamper with your brain? And of course, the question doctor J has been asking us for the past week, At what point do you say enough is enough, she’s been put through her fair share. Most of us in my class period agreed that the most unjust part was the fact that while they were torturing her, she had no memory of what she had done. If we look at the word “just”, I believe it means fair and equal. In this sense you can understand this sort of “an eye for an eye” justice. It is equal pay for what she did to the child. This is basically what our U.S. justice system looks like right now. Someone harms someone else and must “pay” for harming them. But this isn’t what the justice system was meant to be at all. If you take everyone who ever did something wrong and lock them up in a building, strip them of their rights and dignity as human beings, and treat them like garbage, chances are they won’t suddenly turn into the model citizen you wanted them to be in the first place. It takes rehabilitation for that. There was no sign of rehabilitation anywhere in the whole film. They put her though all of that and you think “wow, okay that’s rough, but at least they’re trying to teach her a lesson”, and then they go and erase everything she just learned! I hated that part.
So even though, like most of my class mates, I found the scenario in white Bear unjust; it was for a different reason. Torture does a disservice to our communities. If we’re going to spend that much government money on dealing with these” rule breakers”, we owe it to tax-payers to at least try to improve those that are found guilty.