Originally posted by @wolfgang59I get thumbs down for asking a question?
What do you mean?
The rapist thinks about consequences before raping someone?
-Removed-I am neither liberal nor conservative.
I suppose...I am at root...a humanist.
I believe we have lost our way regarding crime and punishment.
The re-institution of some degree of the Lex Talionis or Code of Hammurabi appear to be in order. Because, I think, current global disorder... warrants a radical change.
-Removed-Criminals and terrorists have been executing people in public for a very long time. No judges. No juries.
No justice!
Whether the etiology lies in psychosis or perverted, deranged ideology matters not. The innocents are still unjustifiably... dead.
Without a doubt...stronger deterrence is necessitated.