Before the savages came over from Europe and brought death, disease and destruction, the people of Canada were developing a far more enlightened approach:
Mohawk leader Joseph Brant
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In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of empire. Hence your codes of criminal and civil laws have had their origin ; hence your dungeons and prisons. I will not enlarge on an idea so singular in civilized life, and perhaps disagreeable to you, and will only observe, that among us we have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws ; and yet judges are as highly revered amongst us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded.
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The only time someone should be locked away from the public, is when they are a danger to the well being of the people. Betraying a loved one by committing adultery in a monogamous relationship is a very evil thing, but the state has no right to do anything about it.