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I think suspect many people see it as neither primarily vindication nor primarily correction.
Rather, they see it as prevention.
The worse the punishment, the less proclivity the population will have toward criminal acts.
Or so the reasoning goes.
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I think suspect many people see it as neither primarily vindication nor primarily correction.
Rather, they see it as prevention.
The worse the punishment, the less proclivity the population will have toward criminal acts.
Or so the reasoning goes.