fatvegan

Sometimes when I read the judgements for seriously messed up crimes, I wonder how judges manage to be so reasonable. They might describe gang rape as demonstrating "a callous disregard of the young lady's integrity." It's kind of like the defendants are praised with feint damnation. I'm not sure what else the judge could say instead. Calling them evil little fuckers is probably a touch unjudgemanly. But the processing of the details and analysis is so cold and in sentencing they seem to add on some moderate number for each particularly evil behaviour, and take some time off for slightly less anti-social behaviour. So maybe you get an extra five years for torturing someone before you assault them, but you get three years taken off because you gave the victim a blanket after it was over.

I am thoroughly opposed to immoderate forms of justice and sentencing, but the moderate sorts are so dissatisfying.