Re:Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – European...
by josephcsible on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:19PM
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Fine, make it 10-20 instead. But clearly the punishments we have now are too lenient to be effective.
Re:Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – European...
by dspillett on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:02PM
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> Fine, make it 10-20 instead.
Would still push people towards the worse crime to cover their tracks I expect, and wouldn't be a full deterrent because it doesn't account for people acting under duress that is more dangerous in their mind than what the law is threatening.
Furthermore, there is a cost to keeping someone locked up for 10-to-20. Do you want to pay that out of your taxes? Because that is where it would come from.
> But clearly the punishments we have now are too lenient to be effective.
People still steal in places where the punishment is losing a hand or being stoned to death. What do you propose that would be a greater deterrent than those?
A punishment similar to murder for breaking & entering and theft?!
Picture this: you catch a group in the act, they now have a choice: 20 to life if they leave you alive and able to report who they are or kidnap/maim/kill you so they have less chance of getting identified (if they are, the punishment is no worse, if they aren't they get away: so the range of possibilities is 50% better).