SInce I asked first, can I ask for an answer first? Do you see that that isn't my point, or my question? My question is: the penalty society exacted is X, the perp pays X -- is it your place, my place, to demand more of him, or to hold his bill unpaid and hound him for it, absent further crimes? If here, then in how many places? And what is the difference between that and vigilantism, mob rule, or anarchy?
If we don't like the penalty, we can change laws and judges. Should we persecute those who paid what they were told to pay?
Dan
You are right - we need to change the laws as some states are now doing. Keep child molesters in prison for life.
Part of the payment is to be branded forever. This is not like speeding, or refusing to pay bills, the minor crimes that you cited earlier.
Since you seem to like biblical stuff, did your God let Cain know that he and his kind were to have a mark put on them after Cain killed Abel? Why can't our society emulate something God is supposed to have done in the name of justice?
But we can't because the system is just too corrupt at this time. All the children alive now are living only because someone had the grace to let them live until they were born. We have become a nation of whores and murderers.