<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>This is exactly why society as a whole gets to decide instead of the victim or relatives of the victim. It&amp;#x27;s human that harm done to you or a close person is hard to forgive, but societies goals differ from the goals of the individual: The individuals goal is revenge, the societies goal is to keep the crime rate low. Part of that is betterment of offenders since it keeps the rate of recidivism lower, thus creates less future victims. It&amp;#x27;s certainly unfortunate that the two goals are not perfectly aligned. However, given human behaviour as it is your question is misleading the discussion: The answer is probably &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; and still, society should choose a different way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwoah12</author><text>Just to play devil&amp;#x27;s advocate, are you positive you&amp;#x27;d have the same view if someone murdered your spouse? Sexually assaulted your daughter? Beat the hell out of your mother?</text></item><item><author>falk</author><text>Going to prison shouldn&amp;#x27;t be about punishment. It should be about rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>sigzero</author><text>Hmmm...I do not know anyone with the mentality of &amp;quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&amp;quot;. Prison shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a &amp;quot;cake walk&amp;quot; either.</text></item><item><author>octo_t</author><text>Not just prison rape, but the very idea of &amp;quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&amp;quot; is absolutely awful.</text></item><item><author>kybernetikos</author><text>As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, the US&amp;#x27;s cultural acceptance of prison rape should be enough to stop any extradition to the US for any crime that would garner prison time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>girvo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not the OP, but I discussed this in a philosophy class. My answer was yes back then.&lt;p&gt;Later in life, this belief was tested, badly. My answer was still yes.&lt;p&gt;According to the philosophy classes survey, I&amp;#x27;m not in the majority for this view. I thought that was interesting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jwoah12</author><text>Just to play devil&amp;#x27;s advocate, are you positive you&amp;#x27;d have the same view if someone murdered your spouse? Sexually assaulted your daughter? Beat the hell out of your mother?</text></item><item><author>falk</author><text>Going to prison shouldn&amp;#x27;t be about punishment. It should be about rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>sigzero</author><text>Hmmm...I do not know anyone with the mentality of &amp;quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&amp;quot;. Prison shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a &amp;quot;cake walk&amp;quot; either.</text></item><item><author>octo_t</author><text>Not just prison rape, but the very idea of &amp;quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&amp;quot; is absolutely awful.</text></item><item><author>kybernetikos</author><text>As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, the US&amp;#x27;s cultural acceptance of prison rape should be enough to stop any extradition to the US for any crime that would garner prison time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29</url></story>