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If jail is not punishment

Why do we babysit them?

There are tons of people who are not morally depraved that are dying for lack of health care,Victims of criminals who can't cope with what some asshole in jail fed,clothed,did to them..The victims can't get help, can't keep a job and they suffer.These victims are innocent yet they are wounded and our utilitarian culture has no tolerance for people who can't cope and work and 'be happy' act 'appropriate' pay bills etc.Trauma ruins your capacity for living and coping with your life..

Criminals have no conscience and they are dead in their capacity to feel anything. They are chronically bored,everything is a game because they cannot feel.

So sociopaths they do not feel traumatized from crime the same ways victims with a conscience feel when they are wounded by a criminal's choices to harm them.