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And yet we'll sit in a movie theatre and cheer while the 'good guy' gets revenge/vengeance against the 'bad guys' in the most gruesome way possible. i.e. - in recent times, Liam Neeson in the Taken movies...back in the day it was Charles Bronson in the Death Wish movies. Hundreds upon hundreds of examples - and yet you don't commonly hear people sayin', "Geez, couldn't the good guy just have locked him up instead?"
No, people cheer the body count. The pound of flesh. The eye for an eye.
I'd support life sentences if the fucking prisons were stripped down to what they should be - hell holes devoid of all the comforts they currently enjoy. I have several friends and former co-workers who work for Corrections Canada and I often hear of the conditions inmates enjoy at various prisons. It's enough to sicken the average taxpayer - moreso the families and victims of crime.
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