<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13cfe1fc-7883-4d63-a10a-98fc5ea9748b/56477687-09D8-4C3A-B874-35359B3A8677/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/" href="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.raptitude.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/"><SPAN>When someone does something appalling (and gets caught), people try to distance themselves from that person. They act as though they are a different animal completely, because they can’t bear the fact that they too are an unstable, emotion-driven creature that could also do something horrible.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/"><P><STRONG>1) Deterrence – </STRONG>The threat of punishment discourages people from engaging in illegal acts. <STRONG> 2) Protection – </STRONG>If somebody is behind bars they are physically prevented from hurting people outside the bars.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/"><P><STRONG>3) Rehabilitation – </STRONG>The experience of incarceration can convince a convict to refrain from harming society upon his release.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/"><P>Standard doctrine in democratic countries is that imprisonment serves society in three ways:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.raptitude.com/2009/08/should-we-have-compassion-for-killers/"> the wholly bad guy is killed in spectacular fashion by the wholly good guy, a feeling of wellness is restored, and the house lights come up. That’s Hollywood’s function: it lets us indulge in exactly the feelings we want without repercussions for either ourselves or our species.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/56477687-09D8-4C3A-B874-35359B3A8677/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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