On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:25 -0000, "dennis@home"
wrote:

Yes, I'm sure you would be far more comfortable living in the
middle-ages. Or perhaps even less civilised - as a caveman?

Then what would we do with the offenders, kill them?

Depends on the type of offending. For some offences, my solution
would be to remove the unnecessary laws so that what they are doing is
no longer an offence at all. For most other offences my preference
would be to remove the cause of the offending behaviour in the
long-term and attempt to rehabilitate the person so that they become a
productive member of society rather than a drain.

Only after those things fail should lengthy imprisonment be considered
as a final solution.

So basically you agree with me.

My understanding of your position is that you would lock people up for
a long time *before* making any effort to rehabilitate them or remove
the root causes of their crimes. you would also want to make their
lives a misery whilst they are in prison - though it is difficult to
see why that is at all necessary or what it would achieve if your sole
purpose is to prevent them offending by removing them from society -
incarceration does that of itself.

--
Cynic