Quote Originally Posted by ZeZipster
Udsuna... I hope someday you'll dignify that the principle of "an eye for an eye" died with Babylonia. It's isn't as simple as you're making it out to be. Do you seriously want our government to start promoting a form of torture? Do you know how huge of a step in the wrong direction that'd be?
Actually, it's not torture unless it's done for the purposes of causing pain. That's like comparing surgery to mutilation. All pain will be purely incidental... not avoided, but not deliberately sought out.

And I think we've went WAY too far enough into what you seem to think is the "right" direction. When the most heinous crimes in the world are treated by just a few years in prison, and then another few in a very-loosely-and-easily-circumvented treatment program (with a less than 3% success rate).... sorry, that's just too far gone. It might be a step in the "wrong" direction... but it might be enough, barely, to counter the top-heaviness of the other.