I share almost all of your sentiments. Prisons and incarceration in general should just be one aspect of bettering society, through reform, work release, parole, community service, therapy. Most people are pretty decent when it comes down to it and when they are given a chance to get better.
Part of me agrees that Breivik should have been executed, but another part of me thinks that would be the easy way out, and he should have to suffer for decades.
The longer I think about it the harder I find it justified to spend so many resources on making someone suffer for the horrible things they've done. Even if he was actually suffering and not fake suffering to try and get better entertainment I think its only asking for more trouble to keep around a far-right reactionary that's been stewing inside their own head for this long.
Edit: To followup this isn't to say that I'm in favor of the death penalty in general. I'm not, except in extreme circumstances like these where the evidence is so overwhelming that there is no possible question as to the guilt of the accused and the harm caused is abnormally large in scope and scale.
I share almost all of your sentiments. Prisons and incarceration in general should just be one aspect of bettering society, through reform, work release, parole, community service, therapy. Most people are pretty decent when it comes down to it and when they are given a chance to get better.
Part of me agrees that Breivik should have been executed, but another part of me thinks that would be the easy way out, and he should have to suffer for decades.
The longer I think about it the harder I find it justified to spend so many resources on making someone suffer for the horrible things they've done. Even if he was actually suffering and not fake suffering to try and get better entertainment I think its only asking for more trouble to keep around a far-right reactionary that's been stewing inside their own head for this long.
Edit: To followup this isn't to say that I'm in favor of the death penalty in general. I'm not, except in extreme circumstances like these where the evidence is so overwhelming that there is no possible question as to the guilt of the accused and the harm caused is abnormally large in scope and scale.