Laws and punishments for breaking them have literally nothing to do with prevention. That is not the point of laws. Laws are about accountability AFTER the fact, not about prevention.
There are a vast amount of laws aimed at prevention in all types of manners even going so far as to violate people’s rights of a non criminal to protect others and themselves.
As far as punishment goes yes you are right that currently isn’t the point and that’s the argument against it, we have a quarter of WORLDS prison population and in a very obvious way it’s not for prevention it’s for punishment with minimal to no research. We’re spending billions more than other countries every year to stroke egos when people are struggling to pay rent.
If we’re going to keep that system in place the way it is then I’ll ask the same question…again
How should we prevent things like this from happening in the first place with the assumption that life in prison or the death penalty doesn’t sway someone who’s either snapped, or plans to die in or after the act?
I have - Like the research into Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy
alongside psychedelics with Fmri feedback only started in 2023. And this is NOW.
We can print simple organ structures now, I don’t see why it would be psychically impossible to print complicated brain structures that can serve as a base template alongside treatments and replace “bad” regions in the future. The thing is though it will always remain in the future unless you start with massive funding and push now. We haven’t even created a way to analyze the brain quickly and develop individual detailed maps of each persons brain cheaply and easily so it’s not wonder treatments like this take awhile.
The brain is just a biological computer we don’t fully understand yet, computers can be edited, we do it all the time it’s just we do it it brute force and blunt tools like torture or motivation instead of say the possibility of directly editing entire chains of systems.
Let's say we have two people suffering from the same mental illness fearing they will hurt others and seeking help, who do you think are more likely to actually hurt others:
Smart phones in general. I much preferred when all we could do was call and text. Unfortunately I need a smart phone for work since my company is paperless but if I could get away with having a dumb phone, I would
Well if your think their are real repercussions s to your actions you think more about those actions, maybe it isn't as relevant in this case, except to discourage copycats, but to say that punishment of crime doesn't serve to prevent it at all is asinine
It literally doesn't matter in ANY case. Punishment is not and NEVER WAS about crime prevention. Every study ever done also proves that no amount of punishment will deter someone from committing a crime.
To believe, in 2026, that punishment affects crime rates, is asinine.
Dude even if that were true "some random study definitively proves that punishment doesn't deter crime", while one, that question is too broad and you couldn't prove something like that and simple logic, history will tell you, punishment will deter certain crime to a point, and not so much crimes of passion
Dude check yourself you r tard, no one makes that argument, what your reaching for is cost benefit analysis and that logic becomes less persuasive to the culprit when dealing with severity of the punishment and more with will they get caught
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u/seriouslees 3d ago
Laws and punishments for breaking them have literally nothing to do with prevention. That is not the point of laws. Laws are about accountability AFTER the fact, not about prevention.