are you posting messages from someone else in your posts?
you cannot expect someone to listen to you by being patronizing, which is what you where doing, and you got exactly the same rude reaction back. not going to go over any more of this, you have your opinion on the subject, i have mine.
Terranaut - I would draw your attention to Norway, they operate a very diffrent judicial system to the UK, Canada and US, here in the UK we have a reoffending rate of 75% within 18months, both the US and Canada have reoffending rates of 70%.
in Norway, they have <30% reoffending rate, they operate a completly diffrent system, they rehabilitate rather than punish, and with crimes like Rape, then psychiatry/psychology is used - the numbers speak for themselves really, we can punish for short term release of (justifiable) anger, but it doesnt serve society, the victims or the perpetrator in any real positive sense. couldnt find the original research on it, but heres a newspaper artical which covers most of it:
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people | Society | The Guardian
Negative reinforcement is a short term solution which aggrevates problems in the long term
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