05-16-2006, 07:55 PM
Ghostiger,May 16 2006, 04:39 AM Wrote:Thats not true. Your debt is paid when you serve your sentence according to our legal system. If you go back and read your original statment, its obvious you were refering to our legal system. We do have have parole boards that pay attention to rehabilitation, but they make it clear you have not paid your debt until your parole is over.
You seem to have confused the legal system you would like with the one we have, in the post where I first corrected you.
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You can't just brush aside parole, because that's the whole point... prisoners can be released early if they are deemed able to become a productive member of society once more, aka they are considered rehabilitated.
Your debt is fulfilled once you are able to re-enter society since the payment of your debt began when you were removed from society. A conditional release does not completely invalidate the payment of your debt, it just means that you are kept under a watchful eye to make sure your rehabilitation is genuine, if it is not genuine then you are sent back to prison.
This has devolved into arguing over semantics.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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