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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Can we have compassion for monsters, ax murders, and pedophiles?
 
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Caros
May 14, 2008

 Yup. Taking delight in the punishment is an understandable but ultimately counter productive aspect of the justice system. It is human nature to want those who wrong us to be punished, but as with the death penalty it doesn't really help anything. As you've said it really doesn't help anyone or anything to torment people in jail. Even if we find it difficult to empathize with someone who commits the most heinous acts (which we do and in many ways should) we should not take it to the extent that we relish in their suffering. Prison exists, or at least should exist, to rehabilitate and to keep dangerous people out of society, putting people in jail so we can laugh at their beatings, prison rape and so forth is barbaric and frankly counter productive.

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