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Originally Posted by polak
Exactly. He will not be able to contribute to society in any meaningful way. Why not keep him under supervision for longer? It's not costing us much more than paying for his group home, food and continued medical treatment and it just offers us more reassurance that he doesn't reoffend.
Why are we so eager to let this guy go?
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I'm not sure anyone here is eager on letting him go. Many have said they were torn like I did. It was just the usual comments about justice and punishment and fairness some of us were against. There is no fairness here, for anyone. And justice has already been served to the best of our society's ability. Li's progress in rehabilitation has nothing to do with any punishment he did or did not deserve, or now deserves. That question has been answered already, and to the best or our abilities I believe.
Moving on from here, there is only the question about public safety, which even though I feel as I do, I will admit I am very worried about. And I think that's where a lot of us are. Stuck on that one question. Personally I would like to see more observation, but as I said, we'll wait to see what the experts say.