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Originally Posted by Acey
For me personally, the only element of the American system I think that could be looked at and the only one I referred to is increasing levels of punishment for the same offense. To be fair, that's just... a basic thing that should exist and isn't exclusively American.
I am a strong opponent of the death penalty.
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we do already have some element of that, you will get a steadily increasing sentence if you carry on offending, the guy in question got 4 years for his last assault which was likely little different than his first in violence, the US loves inflexible rules, 3 strikes and you're out etc which leads to situations where a guy who did some dumb stuff as a teenager gets locked up for life for stealing a pizza or something stupid like that in his late 20's when he's maybe turned his life around.
None of this prevents crime I should add, you can lock everyone up for long sentances and there will still be as much crime