So that's a yes on putting child-killers in "healing houses"?
No, that's a yes to using evidence to guide our decisions instead of emotion. Often we do not have the evidence ourselves and need to rely on the professionals to provide that evidence, and not gravitate towards those who manufacture "evidence" to pull on our emotions; something we see happening all the time.
It was explained to me that incarceration has 4 purposes:
- Making the public feel that the system works, ie. administers justice
- Protecting the public from the criminal
- Dissuading people from committing crimes
- Correction
A healing lodge is incarceration, and does protect the public from the criminal.
Incarceration is the dissuasion, no matter how much your feeling want to see someone tortured. How often do we get responses from otherwise rational people, that they want someone to go to jail so they can be
**** by Bubba (we saw that in this form just the other day concerning Cosby, and even with those I disagree with here I would say they are far from the irrational idiots that inhabit most of the Internet).
I think correction is already covered off.
That just leaves public relations. I go back to a supposed rational public that wants a system that works, not one that tugs on their emotional strings.