Rehabilitation or Retribution, Our criminal justice system. Options

[MissHygienic]

Which one should we focus on more in our criminal justice system? Basically, which one would serve as a satisfactory/fitting punishment for prisoners?

[Comptine]

^Are we in Norway? No.

So refrain from calling me such an obscene insult and debate like an intelligent person.

[NoSex]

^Are we in Norway? No.

The f**k does that have to do with anything? You said treating them like human beings wouldn't change anything - but it does. I proved you wrong and you're going to rebut with "but we're not in Norway?" Are you out of your f**king mind?

Retribution is compounding and confounding the problems our society faces. It doesn't prevent crime, it hurts people, it demeans people, and it makes us all look like moronic barbarians - and, in the end, what isn't making a change is our current system of non-rehabilitation. I was pointing to Norway as a more progressive and more productive alternative. There is a reason Norway doesn't suffer nearly as much crime as we do, and I promise it has, at least in part, to do with the enormously different ways we treat social misfits. We could take a few hints, don't you think?

So refrain from calling me such an obscene insult and debate like an intelligent person.

You want to know what's more insulting than me calling you ugly names? You f**king suggesting that we should swallow the poison and f**king like it! You crazy bitch! Norway, Norway, Norway!

Oh, also, it's more insulting that you didn't follow the rules and couldn't even bring yourself to read a single page of posts. The debate threads take a bit more investment than the lounge.