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Suppose you live in a house, inside which you enjoy your private space. Maybe you own it or have a mortgage or something. If I defraud you in a spectacular fashion, such as forging loan applications from you and then not paying back the money to the lenders, there's a fair chance you'll end up being pursued by the lenders and going bankrupt and losing your assets including the house effectively losing your private space

In this scenario should i be jailed?



No, you shouldn't be as long as this isn't going to help me regain what I've lost and I don't want the government to spend my tax money on maintaining the jail to keep you in where you are going to be useless and miserable.

Perhaps there are people who can be satisfied by the fact the person who has made them struggle is put in struggle but I certainly am not of this kind of irrational, your struggle isn't something I can eat or live in.

I would prefer to force you to return what I have lost + some extra and would even love to help you to find as a well-paid job as you can manage with if you don't have the money so you can earn it and pay me.


Okay, I think I can understand your perspective in the sense that purely punitive "justice" isn't necessarily a particularly good use of resources and lives.

On the other hand, there's still a question of "how do we prevent someone from doing the same thing in future to another victim?"


In this case, the logical thing to do for an amoral actor is simply to defraud people left and right and pay them back if you ever get caught. You're very likely to come out on top.




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