Not quite - you've forgotten the bit about crime not being part of their acceptable behaviour, and about when a crime is committed, they get caught. The punishment isn't the deterrent, it's getting frowned upon by your peers, and getting caught.
We have many punishments harsher than the crime, and we have had the assessment of fines by your disposable income returned to Law without anyone realising. That means that, for the same offence, people earning more will pay more. Even our punishment no longer fits the crime, it fits your ability to pay.
But, Mark, you don't have a say in this because, as I recall it, you don't vote. Thanks to you, and millions like you, a bunch of tossers get elected, and then do what they like because they know you won't vote them out. Those that vote them in think they are doing the right thing, yet the majority of people I know think they are doing the wrong thing. And when that majority are asked, well, surprise, surprise, they don't vote!!!
Add non-voters to people who sue and the buggers who stole my daughter's bike to the list of people who are part of the problem... (
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