Affluenza
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Whitey McTeeth
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Re: Affluenza
This is something us normies will never understand.
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spike
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Re: Affluenza
i'm still not convinced this is even real.Whitey McTeeth wrote:This is something us normies will never understand.
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broken iris
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Re: Affluenza
spike wrote:i'm still not convinced this is even real.Whitey McTeeth wrote:This is something us normies will never understand.
Anything the psychologists can make $$$ testifying about, writing papers and giving interviews about, and treating is a real thing. We swearz.
But, I do think this is real and that kid's lack of consequences and wealth exacerbated his normal teenage behavior. I just don't think that is in any way, shape, or form an excuse for keeping him out of jail.
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philpritchard
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broken iris wrote:But, I do think this is real and that kid's lack of consequences and wealth exacerbated his normal teenage behavior. I just don't think that is in any way, shape, or form an excuse for keeping him out of jail.
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simple schoolboy
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Re: Affluenza
Why do we conceptualize jail as corrective punishment? It doesn't seem to work very well at that. This individual belongs in jail because he has demonstrated a substantial risk to society. Unless he receives effective psychiatric care or ages out of it, he should probably stay in jail.
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Norah
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Re: Affluenza
It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.
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broken iris
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Re: Affluenza
This, yo. Jail is suppose to be a deterrent as much as it is punishment. Obviously not in this case though.cutuphalfdead wrote:It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.
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spike
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Re: Affluenza
houses across the land are shivering in their bootscutuphalfdead wrote:It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.
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simple schoolboy
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The deterrent effect doesn't seem to be substantial either. Nor does it seem particularly moral.
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broken iris
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2013 N&D can't handle this thought, friend.simple schoolboy wrote:The deterrent effect doesn't seem to be substantial either. Nor does it seem particularly moral.
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Kaius
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Re: Affluenza
This event sure shit all over the scales of justice, that's for sure.