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Originally Posted by HolyShadow
Law is not necessarily good, and good is not necessarily something one should force upon others. The ugliness that is the desire to see wrongdoers suffer, though strange in that one must define a wrongdoer in order to punish them, with said punishment being a release of one's own inner wrongdoing as a result of other wrongdoing... anyway. That ugliness to see wrongdoers suffer is human, and not something one should force others to suppress for the sake of good or even the most efficient thing possible.
Evil and good barely have any difference when it comes to forcing your own way on others because that forceful expression is very situational and subject to one's own understanding of good.
Most people would agree that forcing others to act how you want them to is evil. Yet what if you're forcing them to do good? What I'm trying to say is that there's basically no difference whether it's good or evil, and there's no difference whether that force is good or evil.
People will do what they want to do.
Now, what does this halfhearted statement entail? Quite simply the desire to do good should be subject to scrutiny by oneself constantly so as not to make huge mistakes that harm large amounts of people. If you try to understand what your good may cause then you can properly weigh things if you feel you absolutely must do something for the sake of good.
Specifically, reform is not necessarily good or evil. Punishment can be good within evil. Reform is a form of mercy. Mercy isn't always necessary. The situation matters. But, once again, people will do what they want. There's always a downside.
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You seem have made three erroneous assumptions:
1=Rehabilitation is a form of mercy, not a practicality.
2=Rehabilitation is forcing people to reform to become 'right-minded'; it is not - it is about allowing people to see why society may reject their previous actions and thereby willing reflect on where they wish to take their future. (What happened to Alex in Clockwork Orange is not rehabilitation because they did not make him understand why they rejected his actions as wrong.
3=The Law has anything to do with good and evil - and that any form of force is evil.
The erroneous nature of each of these assumptions greatly undermines your premise.