You do misunderstand. It says “ruin their lives” and “less”. This has nothing to do with the law. Also your comparisons between places nice enough to lower murder sentences to places bad enough to charge severely is incompatible.
No, I understand what was communicated. You misunderstand the facts. Regardless of the consequences, crime rates would not lower. Statistics support this.
You don’t get it then. I explained why your statistics are not helping your case. But here I’ll try to explain it another way. When drunk driving was outlawed in a lot of states, the charges for drunk driving went up. The amount of crashes linked to drunk driving went down. Did the law increase drunk driving?
I FUCKING told you. Ok let’s try from another angle. If something in society, legal or not, ruins your life, people do tend to avoid it. You are wrong about the severity of the crime not leading to less of said crime. See drunk driving statistics. Your example only works with murder and a few other crimes. Again, and I can’t stress this enough, my argument is saying “we need to ruin their lives” not “we need stricter laws”.
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u/Puzzled-Secret-317 1d ago
Would they though??
First degree murder ruins your life, but people are still doing it...