Just Desserts
Just Deserts
The very meaning of “just deserts” means just that; a reward or punishment in turn for a deed good or bad. In this response, the criminal acts and the punishment, or lack of is what the discussion will be about. For centuries there have been criminals and when caught, these criminals have had some form of punishment. As the world has progressed, in many countries the punishment no longer fits the crime. \\\"Upon a pillory - that al the world may see, a just desert for such impiety.\\\"( www.phrases.org.uk) This is an old English phrase, origin unknown, from around 1599.
Just desserts means a person receive reasonable consequences for your actions. Is our justice system set up to give reasonable consequences? It depends on the crime, in some states a drug dealer gets more time in prison than does a child molester or rapist. Just desert in this case should be that the sex offenders be sterilized then spend the next 50 years in the shoe with a 400 pound homosexual......
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