No no no no no! That is never going to work!

...and I quote;

"MPs and justice campaigners say some of the sentences given to those involved in the riots in England are too harsh.
On Tuesday two men were jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite riots and another was given 18 months for having a stolen TV in his car.
Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake said sentences "should be about restorative justice" not retribution. [...] Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "A four-year sentence would normally be associated with offences such as holding someone up at knife point, grievous bodily harm, sexual assault, and I'm not sure that the offence in question was really related to those types of offences."*

No!
No no no!

Ugh.


For goodness sake! Let's get back to basics here. Let me explain something about the human psyche. And this is not complex psychology, t'aint even remotely Freudian my friends. It's a little something I like to call Common Sense. Now, this may be an unfamiliar term, this Common Sense thing. These days it is almost non-existent, and has been utterly and totally obliterated by a little something called Health and Safety, or as I like to call it, Bullshit.
All humans are born with some modicum of Common Sense. Sometimes, people like www.Hadatriporfallatwork.Iknow!Suetheboss.com are able to eradicate Common Sense in some individuals through the power of Free Money. But for most people, Common Sense remains, lurking in the deep dark recesses of their brains.

Now, let me explain how this works;

1. Child puts finger into candle flame because it is pretty.
2. Candle flame might be pretty, but it's also bloody hot.
3. Child burns their finger on candle flame
4. It hurts. A lot.
5. Child does not do that again, because it hurts.

or;

1. Rioter steals telly, because it is pretty.
2. Old bill arrest rioter because stealing is illegal.
3. Rioter goes to prison. Prison is horrible.
4. Rioter finally gets out of prison and doesn't steal any more tellys.
5. Rioter doesn't fancy ending up in prison again. Prison is horrible.


It's called Common Sense people!!

Ugh.


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*Quote taken from the BBC website here.