Poll: Should punishment be the same as the crime?

[effilctar]

This has been going through my head for a long time really, and it would work in my opinion.

I'm talking about killers being given the chair. 1 less killer in the world.

You'd be more discouraged to rape a girl of your punishment was to spend the night with a huge black prisoner ironically named Tiny (racism not intended)

Should it be done?

 

[grimsprice]

Maybe, i mean its what Jesus would want. Treat others as you would want them to treat you. So if someone murders obviously they want to be murdered... so on and so forth.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

I'm all for capital punishment of murderers, but raping a rapist? That's very much a case of two wrongs don't make a right.

Just castrate them and shoot them in the knees.

Oh, and this won't end well. Ye have been warned.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Maybe, i mean its what Jesus would want. Treat others as you would want them to treat you.

I don't think that's quite what is meant.

 

[bobknowsall]

My answer is no, and it'll remain that way for the foreseeable future. I get the sense this was meant to be a joke post, but prison rape jokes ain't funny. And what about manslaughter? Are you saying it'd be best to kill the person who committed it, but in an "accidental" way? You've gotta be kidding me...

 

[Internet Kraken]

Just because someone does something horrible to you, that doesn't mean you should do the same horrible thing to them. That makes you just as bad.

You'd be more discouraged to rape a girl of your punishment was to spend the night with a huge black prisoner ironically named Tiny (racism not intended)

Now what if it turns out the person was innocent? How the hell are you going to fix that problem?

 

[Squid1361]

I am for capital punishment, BUT...
have you ever heard the expression "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

Also, what if the person was wrongly accused? What then, should the person who pushed the switch be killed?

 

[Snowalker]

"an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind"


I don't like being blind.

 

[KarumaK]

No. Think about it this way, a rapist is a rapist. But that would make you the one who arranges rapes, the rape pimp. Where you will there will be rape.

Yeah I'd hate that... a little.

 

[Knight Templar]

That is stupid, impractical and not going to work. The US allready kills people (death penalty) and it has not fixed their crime problems, commiting the crime should not be punishment for the crime.

 

[Simalacrum]

what, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth? no. Punishing a barbaric act with a barbaric act will just make us no better than the criminals themselves. They should at least be given the chance to re-habilitate and begin life anew. It has happened before, and therefore we should give ever criminal a chance of paying back what they took to the community. Death sentence removes that opportunity.

 

[Harlemura]

How would you punish someone for plotting something, like an attack on the president? Would you just plan how to kill them, then not do it?

Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea. It'd be unfair that people would never get another chance. Not that I know how many people do change, but it seems harsh on someone who killed by accident or something like that.

 

[Banana Phone Man]

So a robber would have to be robbed. Don't some people rob because they are poor so there would be nothing to steal from them. I think this is silly with many flaws. -1 intelligence.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

The punishment should fit the crime, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the crime...That would be often disturbing.

 

[oi oi oi]

what if someone picked up a prostitute??

 

[TheLefty]

It's doesn't really make sense. Though I have to admit that I can't think of away to vocalize my disapproval. I just think it's hypocritical to force rape onto a rapist. I guess it could be said that he won't know what he/she did unless he/she experiences it but I'm pretty sure that's cruel and unusual punishment here in the good old US of A.

 

[effilctar]

Just because someone does something horrible to you, that doesn't mean you should do the same horrible thing to them. That makes you just as bad.

You'd be more discouraged to rape a girl of your punishment was to spend the night with a huge black prisoner ironically named Tiny (racism not intended)

Now what if it turns out the person was innocent? How the hell are you going to fix that problem?

Maybe the choice of punishment by the crime should be reserved for the victim, or family of the victim in the case of murder.

You can sit back and say 2 wrongs don't make a right all day but you don't know how you would act in that situation until it happened to you, and believe me, you really wouldn't. I was all 2 wrong don't make a right until my brother was killed. Now I want that guy dead even though it was an accident because at the end of the day, even if it was an accident, it was illegal to drive in the area we were in, it was like a park thing and he came over driving his SUV through it.

And you would need undeniable proof before deciding it

 

[Internet Kraken]

Just because someone does something horrible to you, that doesn't mean you should do the same horrible thing to them. That makes you just as bad.

You'd be more discouraged to rape a girl of your punishment was to spend the night with a huge black prisoner ironically named Tiny (racism not intended)

Now what if it turns out the person was innocent? How the hell are you going to fix that problem?

Maybe the choice of punishment by the crime should be reserved for the victim, or family of the victim in the case of murder.

You can sit back and say 2 wrongs don't make a right all day but you don't know how you would act in that situation until it happened to you, and believe me, you really wouldn't. I was all 2 wrong don't make a right until my brother was killed. Now I want that guy dead even though it was an accident because at the end of the day, even if it was an accident, it was illegal to drive in the area we were in, it was like a park thing and he came over driving his SUV through it.

And you would need undeniable proof before deciding it

Undeniable proof does not exist. No matter how much evidence you gather, there is still always room for error. And when you take punishments to such idiotic extremes such as this, then these errors turn into disasters.

And you wanting to kill the person that killed your brother is just selfish. All you would do is cause more grief for the people that person is associated with. Why the hell would you want to do that? Because it would make you feel better?

 

[bobknowsall]

I'd fall back on the old "but that won't bring him back" filibuster, but I think I'll settle for reporting the thread. This is going to get unpleasant, I just know it.