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Thread #135123   Message #3081440
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
24-Jan-11 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: The concept of 'punishment'
Subject: RE: BS: The concept of 'punishment'
InOBU remarked

the conection is ( not to mention I guarentee you will enjoy the book... great story...) is that exicution and imprissonment are both expensive, however education and rehabilitation create income to society.

Let me repeat the main part of it, marked up and with some comments:

the conection *** is that exicution and imprissonment are both expensive,

Certainly true, especially in the case of imprisonment.

however education and rehabilitation create income to society.
That clause was stated as a fact.

That would be better expressed as "it is hoped that education and rehabilitation will create income to society." That's a pious and laudable hope. But education and rehabilitation (if rehabilitation is possible at all) are going to take up a lot of that expensive "imprissonment".

Dave Oesterreich