Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Personally, I think the justice system should be based on Utilitarian harm-reduction through and through. None of this seeing the criminals as victims who need a hug, and none of this blood-thirsty mentallity that we have to exact revenge via suffering just for the sake of inflicting suffering itself. The answer to the suffering caused by cancer isn't to punish the cancer and make it suffer, it's to cut it out as efficiently as possible.
That's the way I look at it! I think a good start would be to eliminate victimless crimes from being punished and starting to punish corporate workers for crimes with victims. If a corporation comes out with a product that causes death or some other great bodily harm, they should be punished the same way a person would. Admittedly it would take some working out... but there's always a person that approves of a product being made, and they should be held responsible. I just say that because my dad was one of the people that had a Ford Explorer who's tire blew up while driving due to bad manufacture. If I personally did something to make someone's tires explode... I'd be in jail.

On the other hand, someone smoking pot shouldn't be in jail, since there's no actual victim. In the same line of thinking, the government should jail people that eat too much sugar, since they'd be harming their bodies and increasing their chances of getting diabetes.

That way we have a clear distinction showing what exactly is a crime, and you go to jail in order to make the community safer. All utilitarian-like... like you said.
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