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No. It's because we possess empathy.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, let along generic ideological flamewar, which is the sort of hell we're trying to avoid here.

not for those who were wronged in the first place

Most offenses in the USA are nonviolent drug offenses. Do you think those people should get long prison sentences?

> not for those who were wronged in the first place

What a shitty and presumptuous assumption to make.