Add public executions to the above and I'll vote for it.joe817 wrote:I've got no problem with that. But I also would not mind one bit to bring back corporal punishment in the school systems either.
I got taught at a young age that actions DO have consequences. And those teachers had huge paddles!
People, of all ages and walks of life, must understand AND BELIEVE that their actions do have consequences. For instance, I was incarcerated in the Nashville jail for youthful, shall we say sport in a city park, back in 1962. Afterall, I was a rake and randy young man just back home from a celibate summer on the fire lines in Oregon's forests and deserved to let off a little steam.
If you said "right" to the above scenario, you would be dead wrong. When my Mother, bless her heart, answered my one call from the 'pokey', she hung up the phone. Not that I grew up as a model citizen but, I ain't been in jail since. I think that's sometimes referred to as, "lessons learned".
If miscreants were shown that bad things happen when they do bad things, maybe there wouldn't be so many miscreants. Besides that, prisons provide jobs to bolster our flagging economy. 