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Kim Jong Il posted:We should dismantle the majority of American intelligence gathering operations, and any blow towards their continued operation is a net good for society. Furthermore, prison sentences should solely be constructive and rehabilitative; never punitive, as this case clearly was. While I generally agree with you, I think that there's a certain subset of crime where prison sentences as a form of deterrent makes sense; namely, white collar crime of a nature where the person committing the crime is likely taking into account the risks when they do so. Stuff like insider trading or high level corruption in financial institutions should be dealt with very harshly in order to make such actions have a lower "expected return" for those individuals that might consider them. Not to mention the fact that serious white collar crime can cause far more harm than a random murderer. I don't really feel comfortable considering this that sort of crime, though. I have trouble really thinking of the net harm caused by someone like Pollard compromising state secrets, particularly when he's giving them to a nation that we aren't at war with. Like, the guy sounds like an awful person from reading his biography/history, but I can't think of any benefit to continuing his prison sentence.
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CommieGIR posted:
The problem with your logic here is that Pollard won't ever be in a situation where he even has the opportunity to sell state secrets again. It's only really equivalent to a situation where you have a 100% guarantee that a murderer won't kill again, etc.
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