> if you don't think that's absolutely crazy, and I don't know what to tell you, man

> to adjudicate such things instead of leaving things up to a hate-filled lynch mob

See the duality of your own post.

If I try to be impartial, I can hardly see the point to any sentence larger than a couple decades. When you get to those levels of sentencing where you basically decimate the total useful lifetime of someone, you might as well kill the person.

... and I guess I understand something now.