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[–] FatCrab@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This slightly misses the mark. The majority of crimes, including violent ones, are not committed by people performing a risk calculus. They're done with minimal thought and more often than not in the heat of the moment. Effectively, they are not crimes that you can deter because for a crime to be deterred, the potential criminal has to assess whether it makes sense to commit the crime. This works in cases of like financial fraud and white collar crime. Someone shooting another person during an altercation, not so much.

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks here for this comment, I feel like I see where my stance might not make sense, ofc death penalty should not be given in cases like this where emotion takes over, I am rather taking about ppl like trump and gates and Netanyahu who are completely sane, they just kill for their own benefit

Ppl here have assumed that just because I said ‘I see reason’ means I feel like you need to kill everyone who commits this, No, I am saying that I don’t know the exact circumstance, it might or might not be justified, I hope we can clear this up moving forward

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there’s a way to deter crimes and it’s increasing the certainty of punishment. Overly severe punishment actually has an unwanted effect of increasing the severity of crimes. If a rapist is going to die if caught that incentivizes murdering the victim who is inherently a witness.

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rapists murder a lot of their victims anyway but this kinda makes sense, but it also kind of goes back to my point that the rape itself should be stopped by fear, everybody knows rape=bad, it’s just that people decide whether some jailtime is worth it or if they might be able to get away

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, they convince themselves it isn’t rape. Rape is a lot less dark alley and a lot more sober person and person too drunk to say no or pressuring or some other means of soft power. Look at studies which showed that if you don’t say the word rape a lot of admit they’re willing to do it.

So what you get from executing rapists is someone who raped their partner either in an emotional frenzy or a coercive stage gets accused or has a flash of realization and promptly gets violent lest they die.

Also, as a woman I’m a lot less likely to accuse someone of rape they actually did to me if I know it could lead to them hanging in the public square. Suddenly the weight of their life feels like it’s on my hands and I don’t want them dead.

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

The victim should be given a choice

Anyway I actually remember reading lots of articles a long time ago on rapists supposedly not feeling as much regret as other offenders because they think what they did is justified in a lot of cases, nirbhaya 2012 case in India is the first thing that comes in my mind, I will try linking up that and other later in the day