Father-of-two, 25, sentenced to life for stealing a POWER TOOL - Louisiana

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84. I agree with some of your statement...

My point is, no one decides anything. It's simply live or die based on an immutable rule. A system based on absolutes, on/off, in/out, live/die, black /white, is to live like insects. Yes, insects are very successful as an organism but what is the value of their life? Nothing. No thinking, no choices, just slaves to their programming.

You make a lot of assumptions about people's lives and how they live all of which is anecdotal and as an anecdote I can relate. We may be right, we may be wrong, but I wouldn't want you, me, our system, or the personal beliefs of groups making anecdotal choices about the fate of individual human lives. That would be reducing us to the judicial systems of the dark ages... or even insects. That is where America is going compared to other western societies who are far more successful at rehab and justice than we are here in the US. Many European countries have continued where we left off, where as the US has turned the clock backward and have become hugely unsuccessful. It is hurting all of us and it's making more criminals than it is curing.