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Just thinking…
So I was walking home today after a rather unexpected QQ exam. I was thinking why does our justice system support “emotions”. Maybe you law students can explain it to me.
For example, when a person commits murder and shows remorse why would his/her sentence be shorter or less harsh than someone that didn’t show remorse? You still killed someone, doesn’t matter if you show remorse now…that person is still dead.
By the same premise, if the victim’s family showed outrage then shouldn’t the murderer get a higher sentence simply because the family members were VERY VERY angry?
Makes no sense to me.
So yes, today was my AI exam. Well, for the most part I didn’t understand a lot of the concepts. Getting simple questions wrong, but then again, I got couple of harder questions right. Though I’m sure if were to come back to it in the future I might understand it a lot better.
2 exams down and 2 more to go. I purchased an iphone/ipod charger, cause I left my official apple charger in Canberra, I haven’t been bothered following it up and they haven’t bothered replying to me. The charger works pretty well and it only cost me $10 bucks. How long it’ll last is a different problem and it certainly doesn’t look as nice compare to the official charger. It does it’s job.
I also bought a battery charger for a Canon IXY 55 that my mum found. It’s a pretty old camera, only 5mp, in somewhat good condition. I bought the charger for $30. Going to charge the batteries and see if it still works. If it’s decent I might put off buying my own camera. If it’s crappy, I might ebay it or give it to my parents and ebay an even older Olympus Camera.
I’ll probably bludge for the rest of the day. Too depressed to do any work. I collected my AI assignment as well. Apparently by bi-directional search wasn’t working. I beg to differ. But I wasn’t in a mood to complain and if that 1.5% is the difference between a C/D (yes I’ve given up prospects of HD) then I will QQ so hard.
Ontop of everything, yesterday I owned my headset.
My leg got caught, I tripped and yeah…rest is self explainatory.
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about 1 year ago
For the sentencing thing – the purpose of imprisonment after committing a crime is not merely for the purpose of punishment. There is also an aim of, I guess, reform, so that after the period of imprisonment, the person is able to be integrated back into society. The length of imprisonment takes into account both these factors (and others). If the person shows remorse, then simply, he has recognised his mistake, and won’t need as much time in prison to “reform”. Looking at it from this perspective, the victim’s family’s reaction is quite irrelevant.
Of course, this is all theoretical…
about 1 year ago
Yeah, the legal system thing is weird. But I guess its to do with how likely you are to commit crime in the future and whether you have undergone a psychological change. Yes I agree that the victim is dead and will never come back. But why remove another contributing consumer and worker ant?
Nice job with the Headset
I also got really confused when I realised this wasn’t facebook and I couldn’t “like” this blog post.
about 1 year ago
Facebook connect enabled!
about 1 year ago
I jus realised what I wanted to say has alrdy been said…but I sed I’ll comment…so yeh…hi. =P