Jean Val Jean received a stiff jail sentence for stealing a loaf of bread. Well, we don't have anything like that today, but it can be argued that we do have something very much like mob rule that can approximate a mob lynching. I'm thinking of Ray Rice who punched out his girl in an elevator.
At first, the league suspended Rice for two games. Clearly an inadequate punishment. Then the feministas got into the act. Rice found himself banned for life. Insane! Clearly, taking two games away from an athlete is punishment hardly severe enough to get him to come to terms with his awful behavior. But a life-time expulsion is clearly way, way too excessive. Expel him for a year, and require that he take treatment for his anger and misogynistic behavior -- that would make sense.
If Rice's life-time suspension from football is intended to be a lesson to others, why not go back to hanging thieves in the public square?
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