When is enough?

Starring in this episode of "White Bear", Victoria and her fiancé are the main topic, as they are hated for the torturing and killing of the young girl Jemima. Not only did this couple torture and murder Jemima, but Victoria also recorded all of it. Furthermore, the episode starts out with Victoria waking up in a room with strategically placed pills spilled around her, and an emblem playing on the television. This emblem gives some recollection through quick flashback memories when she looks at it. These flashbacks were of the young Jemima before her death. Other than this, she wakes each day with a blank memory. This situation is all a setup from their form of a government to punish her each day for her crime. They take her through a torturous day of being chased by actors dressed in creepy attire with weapons as onlookers watch and record her silently. At the end of each day, she ends up in front of an audience and is explained who she is, what she did, and what's going on. Not to mention she is now tied up in a chair in front of everyone to add to the torturing. After this, she is taken back to the same bedroom and her memory is erased painfully to do it all again the next day. Their justification of this would be to show Victoria what she put that young girl through. Though she did not do the torturing, some may say she is more of a monster for being able to record such a cruel act.

Although I have no sympathy for what Victoria and her fiancé did, I also do not believe in what this "government" is doing. What good is being done to erase her memory each day and do it again. She does not even remember that you did it to her the day before. This also seems to be their form of entertainment as the head director told the other members to "enjoy themselves" as they do so. I believe the way that they put so much time into it, for example marking the calendar to the correct day and other intricate details, may make them just as messed up.  I begin to wonder who is the one to tell them where their punishment is justified and/or needs to end. Who is to determine that they are now doing just as she did and that doing so each day may put them on the same level as Victoria herself. I believe in punishment for wrong-doing but I also believe there must be a balance of possible rehabilitation in a perfect society. In this case, there is zero hope for any rehabilitation. Some may say or jail systems and justification in the United States may relate to this as the death penalty still lingers in some areas. This may be true, but we also have laws that are voted on to see what would be considered as proper justification. The situation presented in "White Bear" takes it to another level, which would never in my opinion be realistic in our society.