THE LAST DITCH
Reverting to 'tough' justice fails both adults and children | Society | The Guardian.
When someone writes that offenders should "get their just deserts" you assume they are a tabloid journalist.
But when someone thinks offenders should NOT get their "just deserts" and indeed holds the very concept at arms length with disdainful quotation marks, you KNOW he's from that brainless, simpering gangster's moll of newspapers, The Guardian and is thoroughly turned on by a bit of rough.
They get their jusat deserts in more ways than one. Not paying attention in school, learning a trade and not restraining ones emotions and passions will lead to further difficulties later in life.
Tough love, from an early ages as possible, is much better than what any guardianist can offer.
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Any kind of justice would be a step in the right direction, but I have next to no faith in this government improving matters.
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Ah how different are the visions conjoured by the words Just desserts …. whenever I see it without quotes I always imagine the author is a retired colonel eager to get at the naked bottoms of young boys and girls with a birch 😉 Which if they are writing in the Mail or Telegraph is probably spot on!
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How much easier to oppose a fantasy than reality, eh David?
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David,
that says far more about yourself than anyone else.
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A real journalist might know that in this expression, “desserts” is customarily spelled with a double “s”.
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In fairness to our unjust friend, not according to the Oxford Dictionary. “Desert” in this sense is derived from “deserving” – i.e. ones deserts are what one deserves. Of course you sometimes deserve a dessert too, in which case I suppose it’s a just dessert.
B^)
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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