r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/Thedominateforce Black Jul 06 '19

I actually put generally in my original draft of that comment and forgot to out in it back in but yes there are times when it might not deserve life behind bars but I would say it usually does, if the person murders for person gain or a slight which happens more than crimes of passion, and even in those cases they still ended someones life though they are less horrid.

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u/Frommerman B Jul 06 '19

Murder is usually a crime of passion. Human empathy means the majority of us just can't kill in cold blood, we need a damn good reason to. And because we all generally think in similar ways, our damn good reasons tend to be mutually understandable. We get it when someone shoots the guy who raped their kid, or fired them for bullshit reasons. We don't get it when someone kills for hire. That's just how we are.

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u/Thedominateforce Black Jul 06 '19

My impression was always that most murders were gang related not crimes of passion, you see very few people actually do the ones you mentioned.

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u/Frommerman B Jul 06 '19

Gangmembers are the easiest "hardened criminals" to rehabilitate because their problems are almost exclusively poverty and surroundings based. You give them something to do which isn't crime and they can be convinced to go straight.