This is partly a cultural difference. In Europe, there is just less emphasis on the retribution aspect of punishment. For an extreme example that’s impossible to imagine in America, see the case of the Norwegian shooter.
And yes, I do think Europe does things better. The reality is that retribution serves no practical purpose. The kind of person who commits an awful crime is, by definition, not the kind who thinks hard about consequences, or else like here it’s done in hot-blooded anger. Either way, the abstract fact of punishment is not going to function as a deterrent. So all we’re left with is the primal urge to inflict suffering on the perpetrator. Personally, I like to think that we can try to rise above that.
If you kill a bicyclist standing on the bus lane with your car going nearly 3 times the speed limit, you will receive a one year suspended sentence and lose your license for 16 months in Germany.
This is partly a cultural difference. In Europe, there is just less emphasis on the retribution aspect of punishment. For an extreme example that’s impossible to imagine in America, see the case of the Norwegian shooter.
And yes, I do think Europe does things better. The reality is that retribution serves no practical purpose. The kind of person who commits an awful crime is, by definition, not the kind who thinks hard about consequences, or else like here it’s done in hot-blooded anger. Either way, the abstract fact of punishment is not going to function as a deterrent. So all we’re left with is the primal urge to inflict suffering on the perpetrator. Personally, I like to think that we can try to rise above that.
I imagine that car deaths are not a “fact of life” in Europe as they are in the US, so he can actually get some punishment.
Yes they are, it’s horrible.
If you kill a bicyclist standing on the bus lane with your car going nearly 3 times the speed limit, you will receive a one year suspended sentence and lose your license for 16 months in Germany.
10 year prison term seems fitting for a murder
Absolutely, especially when it’s ten of your younger years.
Doubt he will get it tho… In US people thrist for blood until the savage is upper class and/or white because we wouldn’t want to ruin a good life🤡
If it wasn’t for the footage, this clown be would be getting charged with Manslaughter and at most few years on weekend.
These murders apparently dindu nuffin, mate.
You’re not wrong.
You completely missed the point.
So zero years will rehabilitate him?
What will rehabilitate him depends on the perpetrator’s psychology, not on how angry the crime makes you feel.
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