{"id":152,"date":"2012-10-17T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=152"},"modified":"2023-08-13T03:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:27:34","slug":"24-removal-civilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"24. Removal: Civilized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-153\" title=\"ThreeRs04\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs04.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs04-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e6046fb44938030042089' value='69e6046fb44938030042089'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e6046fb44938030042089' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e6046fb44938030042089' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e6046fb44938030042089' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 5: The Three &#8220;R&#8221;s\u00a0<br \/>Page 4: Civilized Punishment<\/p>\n<p>If we were consistent with these ostensibly civilized reasons for punishment, it would not make sense to say &#8220;This crime will get you 5 years in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, such a &#8220;civilized&#8221; sentence would be purely INDEFINITE:<\/p>\n<p>Your punishment would last until it wasn&#8217;t needed any more\u2014potentially lasting FOREVER.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skeleton chained to wall of dungeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But this is hardly a civilized thing to do. That&#8217;s the stuff of medieval DUNGEONS and tyrants&#8217; gulags, not something we associate with modern JUSTICE.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e6046fb44938030042089' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,13,11,6,10,14,12,15],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-eye-for-an-eye","tag-incapacitation","tag-punishment","tag-removal","tag-retaliation","tag-retribution","tag-vengeance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}