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Originally Posted by
Yurt
While your etymology is quite good, your conclusion is not. Habilitate:
to make fit or capable (as for functioning in society)
Thus the fundamental goal of our penal system is: rehabilitation
Don't get me wrong, there are those that need to be killed for their crimes, however, I argue from the POV of our current legal system. If you think that incarceration is not about rehabilitation, I would be interested in your views. Or anyone elses.
** I actually want to open a new thread on this, what do you two think? I feel I am derailing this thread?
the goal of a system and the results delivered by that system are two different things.....
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus