army1987 comments on Terminal Bias - Less Wrong
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That's what I thought, until I tried talking to people about how justice could be improved. Some people really do take punishment of criminals as terminal. There are some in this very thread.
(I wonder whether they wouldn't like a world without crime because that would mean there's no-one to punish.)
It's not so much that U(punish criminals) is high it's that U(punish criminal | criminal) is high.