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But do we want to become a totalitarian society like Singapore? I've been there, it's... nice... but it's not what I would call a fun place. Unless you're quite wealthy that is.
Do you also want the government telling you that you can't chew gum when you walk around the city?
Do you also want to pay $100,000 for a Toyota Corolla?
Do you want to have segmented parts of the city where service workers live in barracks and slums?
The reason our justice system is the way it is, is to try and find a balance between reform and punishment with an element of human rights and fairness... there's no cheat code that deletes a person from the planet because they fucked up and picked up a bag of weed 1 day or thought getting a gun would be cool. It doesn't always work, but the drawbacks that come from a totalitarian style justice system and the type of government that would prescribe to it are too great to outweigh the random violence encountered in our society in my opinion.
Improvement can definitely be made, cases sometimes need revisiting with fresh eyes... but throwing people down a well and pretending they never existed isn't an answer.
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