04-22-2021, 08:48 PM
(04-22-2021, 07:02 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-22-2021, 04:44 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: As a participant of judicial process, I could never champion for that idea...
Do you not feel that crime should be punished with a short period of incarceration?
Little note: at least part of the being arrested part of what we’re talking about isn’t a punishment at all; it’s just quarantine enforcement.
What I mean is, if we discover somebody has violated quarantine and they are sentenced to a prison sentence, that’s punishment; if we discover that they have violated quarantine and put them back in quarantine behind a locked and guarded door until they meet the conditions to exit quarantine, that’s not actually a punishment, it’s just forcing them to observe quarantine.
This is similar to the idea which the legal system doesn’t seem to understand that a fraud artist being required to reimburse their victims is not a punishment, and should be absolutely automatic (and not dischargable in bankruptcy); if they’re required to pay additional money to the victims and/or the government then that would be punishment.
I have no idea what the punishment for violating quarantine should be; I’m not a big fan of punishment-oriented justice or discipline regimes, but that’s what most of our current justice system is and it’s hard to move away from that. So I don’t have a firm opinion on what the penalty, if any, should be.
On the other hand, it’s absolutely clear that an unenforced quarantine is meaningless, so anybody who violates quarantine should definitely be put back in quarantine and kept there using whatever force is required. To argue otherwise is to argue that we don’t have the right to protect ourselves using quarantine.