Please note my comment already had this line specified.
>it also means the crimes need to be deserving of being crimes.
I don't want to get into the details of what crimes should or should not be crimes, that won't be productive for this community. But if you are going to use an example to try to make a point, please note that picking an example that includes something you think shouldn't be a crime, or at least a crime deserving of imprisonment, means that my critique was not applied to that example to begin with.
Also, my criticism was specifically about considering the fines as being a point of complaint while not doing so of the incarceration. You example of losing a child is a result of the incarceration, not the fine. Your example of not being hired has to do with the conviction and people's general perception of those convicted, as well as with insurance and similar, and not with the fine. So neither of those are specific to my previous post.
You also end with a critique of the legal system in general. Which is not what I was talking about. Once again, I was specifically talking about the instances of criticism being levied against fines that should be, but aren't being, applied to incarceration as well, creating at least the appearance that incarceration is tolerable but fines are going too far.
Please understand that critiquing a critique of X does not mean that the person doing so agrees with X.
>it also means the crimes need to be deserving of being crimes.
I don't want to get into the details of what crimes should or should not be crimes, that won't be productive for this community. But if you are going to use an example to try to make a point, please note that picking an example that includes something you think shouldn't be a crime, or at least a crime deserving of imprisonment, means that my critique was not applied to that example to begin with.
Also, my criticism was specifically about considering the fines as being a point of complaint while not doing so of the incarceration. You example of losing a child is a result of the incarceration, not the fine. Your example of not being hired has to do with the conviction and people's general perception of those convicted, as well as with insurance and similar, and not with the fine. So neither of those are specific to my previous post.
You also end with a critique of the legal system in general. Which is not what I was talking about. Once again, I was specifically talking about the instances of criticism being levied against fines that should be, but aren't being, applied to incarceration as well, creating at least the appearance that incarceration is tolerable but fines are going too far.
Please understand that critiquing a critique of X does not mean that the person doing so agrees with X.