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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree more than 30 days to repay society is needed. Plus therapy is a great idea to try to prevent her from causing this kind of harm in the future.

I don’t think confinement itself will heal what she’s done nor get her on a better track in life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It will prevent her from actively harming the rest of society. I'm fine with prison reform and I'm generally about restorative justice, let's make the best of a bad situation.

But she demonstrated a callous disregard for the health, safety, and lives of children. I do not trust her to be a part of polite society at this time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I’m all for protecting society by restricting her movement. If that’s being called “punishment” then I’m just disagreeing with the term being used. The point of the restriction shouldn’t be to cause her harm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, then there were agree. I'm never okay with justice that's looking for its pound of flesh.

There can and should be consequences for breaking the social contract, but only to make the best of a bad situation, not to arbitrarily worsen the situation of another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago