It's a pointless signalling thread where people are falling all over themselves to say "Awww, that's nice. Oh, it gives me hope for the world." It's akin to a story about a cop who adopts an abused dog that they found at a crime scene and nurses it back to health. Hence, people are falling all over themselves to disapprove of my disapproval as if it were a competition. It's the kind of thread that "attracts low quality responses" as dang would say - but HN is more tolerant towards low quality threads that don't devolve into ideological wars.

Here's my stance: I don't believe in cruel or unusual punishment. I believe that defendants who "remind me of my son" or "remind me of me, when I was a kid" or "me, if I had made one wrong choice" get better treatment than the heartless superpredators that don't look like the judges son.