But is it Really Justice?

     This week in class we watched the episode "White Bear" from the Netflix series Black Mirror. In the beginning, the main character, Victoria, wakes up in an unknown place with amnesia. As the story develops, it is assumed that everyone is under some sort of trance where they just watch and record bad things happen to those who aren't in the trance as they are hunted by hunters. In the end, though, it is revealed that the whole thing was staged in a big elaborate production as punishment for a crime Victoria committed. How she and her fiance kidnapped a little girl from her parents and how she watched and recorded as her fiance killed the little girl and set her on fire. Victoria is distraught by this news and is displayed to a crowd as they move her back to the house in which she first came. While they are transporting her, the crowd yells cruel things at her and throws sponges at her.  Victoria just sits and takes it all. As they move into the house it shows how at the end of the day her memory is wiped and the whole "show" is started over again. They had been doing it for almost a month already. They turned her punishment for the crime into an amusement park type experience for any outsider to witness and participate in. This was their idea of justice. Then, since her fiance hung himself while in custody, she was the only one that could be punished for the crime. They're making her punishment into a spectacle and have been for a long time. The question is have they done thins for every criminal? Or just the ones they find so horrible that they subject them to basically a recreation of the crime they committed for them to suffer through day after day? How are people still enjoying this after almost a month? And is it set up like a jail sentence where they do it for a time and then let her go? These were some of the many questions unanswered by the end of the episode that had us wondering was this really justice and if this would really make a difference. If anything it would cost the government more money than just sending her to jail since they have to actually set the park up and pay people to be employees of it and such. Plus replacing everything that was broken throughout every single day. To think all of the tax dollars going towards something like that when they could be going to something better instead, something that would actually help people. This type of punishment/rehabilitation can't be healthy for the body or mind. It's crazy to think that someone actually got this approved and is making it happen. Hopefully this isn't the future.
     Now I want to discuss if what they are doing is actually right and/or if it is really just. I believe that it is not justice since she forgets everyday that she committed the crime. The whole point of a punishment is to reflect on what you did wrong and learn from it. She can't do any of that if her memory is wiped everyday. Not only that, but  people seemed to think that she had no humanity and was just evil. I don't believe that was right either because as she was going through the experience she would see how wrong it was for people to just watch and not do anything about it and I remember her screaming to them that "she was a human being" and how she shouldn't be treated the way she was, hunted like an animal. This shows that she had some moral value even after what she did to that little girl. Maybe she actually was forced to do all the horrible things she did because she was under the great influence of her fiance. For all we know she could've been abused and also a victim. I don't really think people took that into consideration as they were reviewing her case and just deemed her heartless. Maybe she just had mental issues that needed to be worked out in a hospital. Either way this justice park that was built for her to be punished is not an effective way to punish her. It is cruel and unusual making it unconstitutional to begin with. Then the fact that they are risking her health by zapping her brain everyday and how she clearly isn't getting enough to eat and drink, but only enough to survive. I certainly don't understand how people can participate and watch as all this is happening like its a amusing thing, when really it's someones life they are playing with. I see how this is similar to us watching crime shows and things like that, but I also feel like that is different because he aren't participating the persons constant punishment everyday and are just watching their story and the crime they committed. It ends there. I think the whole thing is unnecessary and a waste of money. She should just be able to serve her time in prison like any criminal instead of enduring what she has to every day. Because what they are doing to her isn't much justice, but instead torture.