So we're conducting an experiment where society endlessly adjusts to those with maladaptive traits? Allowing ever more extreme variants of these traits to proliferate through reproduction?
That doesn’t work either, though. A cursory look at the reoffending rate makes that abundantly clear. It also assumes that everyone stops & thinks before they act. While most of us do this to some degree for some things, we often don’t. But those wired with, for example, an overly sensitised stress response system (hyper vigilance) are unable to slow down decision-making in the moment, so they absolutely won’t be thinking about whether or not they go to prison… So the threat of prison is no real deterrent and if they go there it won’t rehabilitate them. Its lose, lose unfortunately…
So we're conducting an experiment where society endlessly adjusts to those with maladaptive traits? Allowing ever more extreme variants of these traits to proliferate through reproduction?
The primary role of prison isn't punishment, it's a deterrent.
That doesn’t work either, though. A cursory look at the reoffending rate makes that abundantly clear. It also assumes that everyone stops & thinks before they act. While most of us do this to some degree for some things, we often don’t. But those wired with, for example, an overly sensitised stress response system (hyper vigilance) are unable to slow down decision-making in the moment, so they absolutely won’t be thinking about whether or not they go to prison… So the threat of prison is no real deterrent and if they go there it won’t rehabilitate them. Its lose, lose unfortunately…