The fact that we need some mechanism doesn't mean that any mechanism that "just works" is justifiable.
The problem is more at the root, and it's in the fact that the political system in (ahem) some countries is creating a perverse social and occupational structure.
With a certain amount of money, we can have the following system (in simplified version):
- person 1 builds a jail
- person 2 arrests people 3,4 and 5, for possibly trivial reasons
- person 6 mantains #3,4,5 in the jail, for an excessive amount of time
Or this alternative:
- person 2,6 teach primary and seconday education
- person 3,4,5 get a sufficient education and have an adequate blue collar life, maybe even white collar
- person 1 gets chained at the bottom of the ocean for attempting to corrupt the political system
The problem is that when in a society, crime becomes a business, the first case is what you get.
The problem is more at the root, and it's in the fact that the political system in (ahem) some countries is creating a perverse social and occupational structure.
With a certain amount of money, we can have the following system (in simplified version): - person 1 builds a jail - person 2 arrests people 3,4 and 5, for possibly trivial reasons - person 6 mantains #3,4,5 in the jail, for an excessive amount of time
Or this alternative: - person 2,6 teach primary and seconday education - person 3,4,5 get a sufficient education and have an adequate blue collar life, maybe even white collar - person 1 gets chained at the bottom of the ocean for attempting to corrupt the political system
The problem is that when in a society, crime becomes a business, the first case is what you get.