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Originally Posted by Plechazunga
I don't see why people get so upset about the terminology. A life sentence is a feck of a long time... if you think it should be longer, well that's a point of view, but you might as well all internalise and come to terms with the fact that a life sentence doesn't equate with spending your entire life behind bars, instead of wasting all your energy raging against the semantics.
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I get upset about the terminology because I don't know the background or the history of it. Nor do I see a point in calling it a life sentence if it isn't. Hey, if you want to imprison them for 30 years then say that. But the semantics is only a minor component of the rage, anyway.
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Originally Posted by Chris H
But other than putting away the very worst for longer periods of time, I wouldn't recommend that anyone imitate our criminal justice system. At its worst, it's pathetic, and it's far too often at its worst. And the death penalty in particular does not act as a deterrent to violent crime here.
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I would gladly have the British criminal justice system over the Thai one any day. If the British system is bad, I shudder to think about the rest of the world as I would say Britain's is one of the best already.