Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
The 16th question for example, on the law; after some cogitation, I selected the "prevent the causes of crime" - which is clearly meant to be the far left answer. But whilst I believe we should do our best to remove the social conditions that often lead to crime (poor education, disenfranchisement, poverty) because it seems clear to me that if people have no stake in society, they have naught to lose in breaking society's laws for gain - I also believe that lawbreakers should be dealt with extremely harshly, with life sentences meaning life with hard labour, no release.
Eliminating the causes of crime is the far left answer, yes. By eliminating the sources, you don't get the crime. Then against, far left also would remove a lot of laws which are pretty stupid, so there would also be naturally less crime as well, and not people getting arrested for smoking a little pot.