re: #351 Obdicut
We’re doing a great job of delivering far more punishment than most crimes deserve, actually.
Extreme punishments meted out on a rather arbitrary and capricious basis are a helpful distraction from the fact that many of the really big crimes aren’t even illegal, or if they are illegal, are so rarely prosecuted as to become quasi-legal.
Examples include a lot of white-collar scandals over the past decades —- Enron, CA blackouts, bank bailout of 2008, mortgage bundling, etc.