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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.
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.
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.
Exactly :)