How about people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, who've pledged a lot of their time, money, and effort into "charitable" causes? Obscene wealth, but I guess they're doing something that can lift the material conditions or standard of living for people across the world.
Who is further redeemable between a methhead mugging a stranger on the street to get their next fix or some Wall Street banker who plays the game but also makes sure to acknowledge or give cash to the homeless people he passes on his way to work? No one's perfect, of course, but are we drawing lines in the sand in a future society?
I know, I know, I'm turning in my Lib card. :liberalism: .
Our boy Robespierre says it best : to be lenient against tyranny is to be complicit. Those who have been exploited since the dawn of time deserve to see their oppressors judged, and punished accordingly. Billionaires aren't the same as libs or fascists, they're the ones who build the system, and actively enforce it to this day. Where's the justice if these ghouls don't get their very own Nuremberg ? What makes you think they won't try anything either ? Letting them go is not only a moral injustice, but also a risk.
Also, I would like to add to this that ordinary crime is a result of poverty. With the bourgeoisie out of the picture, we have free reign to finally redistribute their wealth and abolish private property. As for those who were petty criminals and addicts, they deserve only one thing : rehabilitation and reinsertion.