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Originally Posted by aka123
No, this is not language barrier thing, this is thinking type of barrier. As I value freedom, but you apparently don't.
Me feeling bad for something doesn't make it OK to give whatever punishments, or if it does, why not death sentence for all crimes (maybe I feel really bad)? And we have judges to have objective view, that is why I am not judging my own cases. I don't think that your system, however shitty it is, is that much different.
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I see what you are saying now
and it's more in line with what I've previously got from your posts, and thinking (which I do find very interesting mostly).
The thing is, the loss of freedom is exactly what you need as a further level of punishment, otherwise the wealthy would do what they like, knowing they'd only have to pay an easily affordable fine. You also assume every person has money to pay a fine in the first place.
There'll never be an ideal solution that caters to every circumstance, so you have to weigh that in. Some problems with monetary fines only:
do they have money to begin with?
do they have so much that they don't give a fuck (a look at most politicians will give the answer to that one)?
where do you disburse fines so that it's 'fair' to everyone?
what if you receive a fine and refuse to pay?
do you then breach further 'freedoms' by taking it from the source?
what if the source is offshore?
do you then create a world police/fines collection agency?
etc
etc
etc
utopia is a great place inside the imagination, unfortunately that's the only place it ever exists, and is different in every mind that imagines it.