Waterford acid attack

There's something so horrific about it. Disfiguring or blinding someone over a feud, or for a phone or because they dumped you. It's cowardly and vicious and seems like a next-level crime over beating or stabbing.

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

What? How would having a prison built have stopped this attack?

It's the fault of the justice system, kids these days know they can get away with this, they will get a barrister who will sell a sob story and the judge will give lenient sentences.

There's more to it than that. There's a substantial chunk of the population who lack empathy or any regard for fellow human beings, people who'd stab you for a few quid, who simply don't care. They don't have a conscience, or experience shame, or think of anything other than getting what they want by any means.

Poor parenting of kids who then develop early attachment disorders and don't develop the skills to connect with other people and grow up detached and void of emotion or caring, and then those kids have kids and the cycle goes around and expands with every generation. Drugs and alcohol abuse would be at the start of it, and then it gets to a point where even if it isn't a factor the next generation don't know any better because their backgrounds don't value education or ambition so they make the same mistakes they learned by example ...and repeat ad infinitum.

Absolutely not true of the very vast majority of people in challenged circumstances, just true of a few - but enough to make a mark on the rest of society. A handful of people can cause a lot of misery for many.

And then the justice system fails society with lenient sentences that lead to people not even bothering to report crime, and fails the convicted because there's little meaningful rehabilitation to improve the outcome on release so they subject the rest of society to more criminality and so it goes around and around.