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Comment by arcticbull

The common failure mode is to index broad policy on single instances of failure. You're never, ever, no matter what, going to stop all instances. Trying to design a policy that eliminates all instances can actually increase the number of instances.

You can't craft good policy that way. Rehabilitation, low recidivism, etc are far more important than revenge in optimizing the global situation.

It's better this one killer serve out a sentence on their PS2, away from society, than creating 10 killers in the first place and executing them to satisfy bloodlust.

parent arcticbull 3 years ago

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