Everyone
has heard of the famous quote from Mahatma Ghandi, "an eye for an eye
makes the world go blind". This quote relates directly to punishment and
how people react to other's wrong doings. The quote is essentially saying if
you do the same thing someone does to you, you are just as bad of a person.
Therefore there would be no good people. It is the ability to forgive and
forget that makes people better. I agree with all of this until things like
murder,, kidnapping, and stealing are mentioned.
in
white bear, I believe the actions of the company and the courts are reasonable
and justified. In today's world it is very improbable to get away with any sort
of serious crime. Therefore if a serious crime is committed there should be a
serious punishment. The hope for this kind of punishment system is to
prevent someone from committing a
serious offense. In white bear, the offender was subject to the exact same fear
and confusion that the kidnapped child was exposed to. Yes this kind of
punishment is cruel and unusual but anyone who has the capability of abducting,
torturing, and burning a child alive should be subject to this sort of
punishment. Since class I have changed my view on this. Someone who commits
such a crime should be subject to this punishment as long as a judge seems fit,
rather than she should be subject to the same pains the child was for the same
day. In order to punish the woman as she should she must never be able to be
set free, so serving an equal amount of time as the child endured is simply not
enough for a crime so bad. Sometimes rules have to be bent or changed in order
to create order and peace.
The objective of punishment is to
create a sense of responsibility for someones actions. Therefore some
punishments should exceed just time in jail and have more to do with the
offenders actions. I am not necessarily advocating the death penalty but I do
believe that some such acts deserve an advanced method of punishment. In order
to make an effort to stop crime you must play hardball, when it comes to crime
you cannot simply forgive and forget, if you do repeat offenders will become
more frequent and more dangerous. With that being said I do not believe there
is a way to avoid major crimes.
2 comments:
The can be several problems with the idea of everyone that was sentenced to major crimes was given the same punishment. What about people who are wrongly convicted. Innocent people have been convicted of crimes such as murder. We would feel pretty bad if a man was tortured like the girl in the episode every single day and then found innocent. I think it'd be best to just put them in jail and make them reflect on what they did. Because once you do something as drastic as execute a man... you can't take that back.
I agree with you in that people who have committed wrongdoing have warranted punishment. I also think that as a general idea of punishment, White Bear wasn't too crazy. But, I do think there is a point of an extreme. People deserve warranted punishment, and I think that no matter what happens in the world, people deserve what's due to them. But in White Bear, the excess came when it repeatedly happened for who knows how long. Maybe a way to make it fair would be to keep her confused for as long as they held the little girl...without the whole realization video memory-erasing part. Just once. But again, doesn't that make us just as bad as her? The concept of punishment is such a strange one. I think that if one commits a heinous crime, they deserve a heinous punishment. But heinous and cruel don't necessarily have to be the same thing. Let's not lose sight of the point of punishment, to the point of making it our own entertainment.
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