Comment by franga2000

While I agree that much more focus should be given to helping victims and much less to retribution, deterrence is also a key pillar of the justice system and should definitely be exercised here. It's likely not possible to make all victims "whole again", but we can make up for that by "making an example" to other potential criminals, showing them the "danger" of committing similar crimes. If "the next SBF" sees the risk of life in prison isn't worth it and decides against running a similar scheme, we've actually saved more people than we could've by only repaying damages to SBF's victims.