Bringing Back Flogging Summary

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Jeff Jacoby opens my eyes up to problems I had no clue even existed. He has a great point, not believing everyone should have to be thrown in jail but who’s to say when we spare people and put through flogging instead it won’t start bigger problems? Not everyone was raised the same nor thinks the same. We can’t force someone to feel shame the same way another would, so I don’t really believe flogging be brought back. Summary
Jacoby tries to convince us that flogging should be brought back into use today. Instead of wasting 30,000 a year to house a inmate, instead of throwing everyone no matter the crime, violent or not behind bars. We all understand consequences …show more content…
“What kind of corporal punishment would you need to be offered before you think it would be reasonable for you to be indifferent between that and punishment and ten years of prison” (RationalReflection,2015,para 4) Again other sources even prove, it’s a new debate starting, how do we tell someone there indifference from the rest? How is my crime not good enough for flogging or prison time? Someone who wants time and gets flogged for sure isn’t going to just be over it instead their going to be out looking for blood.
Jaocby even points out, “But there would be no cachet in chaining a criminal to an outdoor post and flogging him. If young punks were horsewhipped in public after their first conviction, fewer of them would harden into lifelong felons.” (Jacoby,1997, para 7) How does it make sense to state that prison is like cages for animals yet were okay with “chaining a criminal to an outdoor post”, how does that make him feel any less humane? Were treating him like a animal instead of locking them up, they throw them back out to the community upset, that doesn’t sound like a good mix to me, were not animals we all deserve

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