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Old 11-12-2009, 07:27 PM   #140
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos View Post
I'm not trying to make a lame old slippery-slope argument here, but by your logic, what the victim of a crime wants to see happen to the criminal becomes a significant factor in the sentence the criminal faces.

We just can't have that. The Death House in Alberta would be filled with vandals, cattle rustlers, tax-cheaters, the tax man, rabble-rousing union organizers and some guy who met Pierre Trudeau at a party.
But you just did make a slippery slope argument. Victim impact and victim healing are already factors in sentencing and the justice system. There's no reason for this to lead to the crazy items at the end of your quote.

There's a middle ground between victim's wants not being a factor, and victims wants being an extreme factor. Most things in life fall in middle grounds like this and it doesn't mean we have to fear the dreaded slippery slope.
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