Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
I'd prefer a system where someone couldn't permanently deprive innocent people of their life, liberty, and happiness, just to be allowed back into society at a later point. I fail to see why considerations for the well-being of a felon should take precedence over that of his victims.
It'll depend on your hierarchy of values, I suppose. Some people place individual liberty high and prefer to restrict government power to things which have actually happened, others prefer to sanctify abstract numbers and want to government to act on anything it can statistically predict. It comes down to whether you are still a person if you are convicted of a crime or whether that changes you from a human being to a set of numbers.