But lets face it, nobody is going to
> take a left seriously that proposes that we put thugs like these in
> luxury resort hotels.
Well, why the hell not? Does keeping him in humbler surroundings actually improve anything in the society outside? Does it have a rehabilitative effect? So what's the point, other than accentuating all the baser elements of bourgeois morality?
As a smarter man than I once asked, "San Quentin, what good do you think you do?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY
(If Andie or anyone else posts a defense of retribution as an ideal, I promise to read it.)
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."