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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
So rather than just prosecuting the crime, you add extra punishment to atone for the sins of old.
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Where do you get the "atone for sins of the old" in my post, Rush? No, you add extra punishment to send a message: anybody who might go out and burn a cross on somebody's lawn because they don't want a different race in the neighborhood, or beat up a black guy because he's dating a white woman, knows that they can't get away with shit like that any more. Atonement has nothing to do with it. Did California "atone for the sins of old" by lowering the DUI blood alcohol level to from .1 to .08, or did it realize that too many drunks were on the road and change the law to try to fix the problem? What about three strikes laws? Are those atonements for sins of the old, or are they a recognition that too many recidivists were serial criminals?
