• Kairos@lemmy.today
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      16 hours ago

      If you make a lesser crime have a high sentence, you push people to commit the higher crime instead.

          • butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus
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            16 hours ago

            Fair enough, I wouldn’t consider successfully torturing a cat to death as being less than attempting to kill someone, but if we don’t agree on that point than we aren’t going to come to an understanding here. I guess I fundamentally disagree with the argument that we should incentivize psycopathic murderers to torture animals to death for fun (by having inconsequential sentences for torturing an animal to death) rather than, you know, kill them because they clearly don’t have any place in the world.