here is the thing though
the vast majority of people in prisons are not those people
like the vast majority
there are people in prison for unpaid fines because they are homeless
and I don't mean one or two
like I said, you don't build society for Martin Bryant, but that's the argument you are making by only talking about extreme cases like they justify locking everyone else up / like they are the only people that get locked up
I can accept the notion that more people go to jail than should. That’s totally fair.
It seems hard to believe people go to jail for being homeless yet the guy this thread is based on skipped jail for waiting outside with a group of mates and then coward punching someone then viciously beating them up when they were on the ground.
I’d also say that humans are inherently violent when given free rein. And it’s been that way forever. But that’s another matter entirely.