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>>>I agree. The reason for any punishment is to attempt to correct, mold, shape or whatever you want to call it - change behavior. I think punishment should be increased with every offense, for everyone. First offense, you pretty much get a free bite at the apple, except on serious crimes. After that it should scale up. This is just sensationalism.
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>>So DUI, speeding, making an illegal left turn and having her drivers license suspended, pulled over three times by officers from three different law enforcement agencies during her suspension, not attending alcohol education classes, violating her probation, and being late to court are forgivable and responsible actions? Poor Paris.
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>Psychology 101. If you never administer a "reward", how can you expect to change behavior?
Psych 101 - Aversion Therapy - keep giving increasingly strong electric shocks until the rat learns "Don't do that" <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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