Naomi - // andy-hughes, a civilised country we may be but there’s a hole in your lecture.
//serves up the justice that is deemed appropriate.//
But it doesn’t – and at 17:19 Tue you agreed that it doesn’t. The punishment very often does not fit the crime - the whole point of this thread. //
I prefer "opinion" to 'lecture" but never mind.
I am surprised that you have misinterpreted my point.
I was very careful to say 'what is deemed to be appropriate' - and by that, I mean deemed by the legal system.
That does not always chime with what we he concerned citizens may think is appropriate, and indeed it often doesn;t, as I pointed out.
But it is still as decided by the deciders, do the 'hole' in my point is actually not there, I am sure you will now agree.