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They shouldn’t be nice either. She committed real crimes and ruined the lives of dozens of women/girls. She shouldn’t get to play with puppies or touch the internet. She should be made to live the rest of her life working to apologize and make “right” whatever way possible.
I'm general, I think jails should be humane a place for healing and recovery.
HOWEVER, what pisses me off is that rich pedophiles get the noce jail, while minor drug offences get forced labour torture camps. two tier justice system.
I don't see why that matters. No one can undo the damage she's done least of all her. At this point she just needs to be separated from society. That in of itself is the punishment
Are professionally bred domesticated pet animals not a perk of being a part of society?
As long as it's all offline or receive-only, should she also get any TV channels or blu-ray movies or game consoles she's willing to pay for?
I'm not here to advocate for cruelty or dehumanizing people who have committed crimes. Just wondering about the thought process.
I bet for most people who aren't "internationally infamous monster" level criminals, having a pet to care for could be a valuable part of rehabilitation. Maybe they could even take the pet with them after release to give them incentive to get up and go to work to support it.
In this case though, it's all annoying because we have a very very bad person getting outrageously special treatment for the shadiest of reasons.
Is that why people are actually mad though? Because of the privilege that isnt being extended to other prisoners or because they want this person to suffer. I think it's quite clear that they do perceive the injustice here being that she has a dog, not that other prisoners don't have dogs.
She didn’t give a flying fuck if children suffered, so why are we giving her puppies? She deserves to be rewarded for her atrocities?? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you a pedophile looking for sympathy’s?? Should we also reward puppies and lollipops to the IDF soldiers raping prisoners with knives??
Because we're not like her. Being cruel accomplishes nothing. Her punishment is being segregated from society. That is enough, anything else is vindictive.
I think this topic might be triggering you, maybe filter out the names of the people mentioned in the title so you don't have to see this in future.
Rewarding bad behavior enables bad behavior. I don’t reward pedophiles. Period.
Prison isn't a reward. Her quality of life is objectively worse now. It isn't enabling, it's the total opposite. Confinement to a place damage can no longer be done
Puppies are rewards. Moving to nicer prisons with cushier settings like foreign language and gardening classes are rewards. Getting pardoned for keeping other pedophiles safe is a reward.
Get fucked.
Their not rewards because she isn't getting those things because she's a pedophile, she's getting them because she's rich and well connected. That's the injustice here. Pedophiles aren't motivated to commit pedophilia because they'll get a dog I'm prison. It being a reward for pedophilia is such a poorly thought through take.
Nowhere did I say she is getting those things because she is a pedophile. However, she IS getting those things regardless of her being in prison for being a pedophile.
Crimes are more likely to be commit when there are no consequences for committing those crimes.
The issue you and I have is that you think pedophiles should still have access to cushy things, and I don’t. They stripped the humanity of the most vulnerable and harmed their life, and in this particular case not just once but more cases than we even know the full extent of, while also helping to keep the crimes going just so she can get an easier ride from her own consequences.