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The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued. If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to. And that is ridiculous. There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point. People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault. For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school. Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus? They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to. People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM