KilroywasNOTHere
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Jails cost a lot of money and criminals use them as training grounds, hence the term university applied to them in some places.
Is it really more humane to cut off a person from their life for years and lock them up with worse scum than flog them publicly?
Years behind bars will inevitably lead to a harder time when returning to a normal life.
Whatever you think, a fast and nasty punishment that the guilty would not like to repeat is probably more effective.
Oh, and there is actual proof that it works, since it is still practiced in Singapore which is just the 3rd safest country on the planet, and one that turned from a shithole into a prosperous and fairly decent place to live virtually overnight, with one of the most highly educated and skilled work forces on the planet.
right because it's totally about how brutal they are and not the fact that thier population is the size of one state.