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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
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This is kinda ####ty because real people and real emotions are involved, but it's an interesting academic thought study for our approach to forced confinement of the mentally ill and the prison system. Is the goal of Prison etc Rehabilitation? Thus making someone who for all intents and purposes is 'better' having served their time removed from society? Is this what the systems as it is for? Or is it to keep folks incarcerated for all time, with no chance of rehabilitation. Is there an avenue for restorative justice? Again lots of questions I don't have answers to. It's none of my business but wonder how when he's mediated de Grood feels about what he did. |
This is sort of the problem with mental health...its 'barely' a science. Everyone's mental heath and mental problems are different.
And I think this is the crux of the matter with de Grood here. When he's doing well, he might be perfectly fine.
But if the switch flips on that one bad day the consequences will be disastrous.
How much are you, is society, willing to risk? Willing to bet, that that 'one bad day' will never come?
Because innocent lives are literally on the line.
I'm not into Draconian Sentencing Laws or locking people up forever, but on occasion I am willing to consider exceptions based on a risk analysis.
Maybe he should be freed one day...but only under seriously heavy supervision and then...is that worth it?