My Stance
In my (albeit short) lifetime, I have noticed that the vast majority of the human race is weak and pathetic. They follow leaders blindly and accept every word they hear as fact, and for the most part, cannot think for themselves. While there are individuals who are not like this, who do have the mental faculties to apply critical thinking to most things, they are few and far between, relatively speaking. Most of humanity is, in my opinion, pretty dumb, and, well, sheep.
Given the sheer amount of people who are like that, and will be like that for the foreseeable future, it is a futile task to attempt to change the very nature of their species. However, while the average human is quote stupid, there are people far below that, who are far worse. The focus of my argument will be about these people, and how they should be treated.
Let’s first describe the people in question. Relatively mild cases would be bullies, troublemakers etc. who harass other people and destroy public property for the simple reason that it makes them laugh. Worse are people such as rapists, violent drunks and other such lowlives. At the bottom of the barrel are murders, all types of them, be they simple knife-loving psychos or suicide bombers. What all these have in common is that they not only contribute absolutely nothing to society, but actively detract from it. I have defined all of the above under the umbrella term of “idiots”.
I know for a fact that you agree with me on that they should be punished and face the consequences of their actions, as does the rest of the world – we have laws forbidding those kinds of things and jails to house such people, after all.
But I think we should take it a step further. Instead of simply handing put jail sentences, we should let them taste their own medicine and commit the same acts on them that they did to be in prison i.e. if they kill someone by stabbing them in the abdomen, they should be killed by being stabbed in the abdomen, or if they burned someone to death, they should be burned to death as well. This is justice and karma in its purest form, and would skip the entire process of courts and things like that. They waste everyone’s time and it’s far simpler to let the criminal decide their own sentence beforehand.
This applies on the small scale as well, for example if a school bully beats up another kid, then they should be beaten up as well. Unless they are a masochist, this method would quickly set things straight and bullying would stop out of fear. Similarly, if they interrupt lessons and harass teachers, their right to learn should be stripped from them and they should be put to slave labor. Only through hard work could they earn the right to study again.
These methods I described would not affect anyone other than idiots. Normal people would live their lives totally unaffected-- well, not entirely true, since in the absence of idiots, their lives would improve and they wouldn’t have to live in fear of punishment either, since no sensible person would do any of the things I mentioned. All in all, it would be a positive change on the world. Normal people would have nothing taken from them and the idiots would be rooted out. When there’s no one interfering with the work of those trying to improve society and when people can freely express themselves without the fear of being targeted for being different, humanity would take one step towards stepping out of the stupidity zone.