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*sighs* last day at the office today. Tomorrow I shall probably be back in manual labour again and my access to the net will once again dwindle. It's been an interesting experience, this office thing, but I guess I am ready for a change of pace again. Maybe an office job someplace else? Well I guess beggars cannot be choosers, but I can hope at the very least.
Yesterday I watched a program I hate called 'cold case' which you may have spotted recently. It's all about some detectives solving cases resigned to the archives long ago and this particular episode showed why I hate it more than most. The woman had killed some guy thirty years or so previously, and had since settled down and raised a family. The cops pulled her in while she sat watching one of her kids hockey games or something and the sense of black and white justice they try to portray just makes me sick. What is the point in justice? Why do we actually lock people up? It was taking the moral high ground in sending this mother to prison because she killed someone, but is that all that prison is about; retribution? If she hasn't killed since and sending her away would destroy the family and potentially fuck up the children for the rest of their lives then who is really the bad person here? To my understanding a lot of the theory behind prison is that it prevents them from wanting to do the same again (not that it works) but why impose something like that on a mother who has done no wrong for 30 years. Grr. I raised this point in front of Vics' parents and was told to get off my soap box. I seethed inside and said nothing.
Yesterday I watched a program I hate called 'cold case' which you may have spotted recently. It's all about some detectives solving cases resigned to the archives long ago and this particular episode showed why I hate it more than most. The woman had killed some guy thirty years or so previously, and had since settled down and raised a family. The cops pulled her in while she sat watching one of her kids hockey games or something and the sense of black and white justice they try to portray just makes me sick. What is the point in justice? Why do we actually lock people up? It was taking the moral high ground in sending this mother to prison because she killed someone, but is that all that prison is about; retribution? If she hasn't killed since and sending her away would destroy the family and potentially fuck up the children for the rest of their lives then who is really the bad person here? To my understanding a lot of the theory behind prison is that it prevents them from wanting to do the same again (not that it works) but why impose something like that on a mother who has done no wrong for 30 years. Grr. I raised this point in front of Vics' parents and was told to get off my soap box. I seethed inside and said nothing.