I’m conflicted on this one. State-sanctioned murder is never appropriate; that’s not what I’m conflicted about. This shouldn’t be happening, and if the state really does care about minimizing damage rather than retribution (the death penalty does not deter crime), they shouldn’t be putting a ticking clock on her; as her attorneys noted, these assets aren’t exactly liquid, and getting the most value from them takes time. If they make her sell them off in a fire sale, they’re likely to see a fraction of what they would have had before.
What I’m conflicted about is how long a sentence like this should even be. Prison should be primarily about rehabilitation and preventing harm during said rehabilitation and then secondarily as a way to deter crime. She hurt way more innocent people than even a murderer does, and it shows a disgusting selfishness. Yet here, rehabilitation barely plays into it, because even if she’s a massive piece of shit, a government like Vietnam’s has a ton of power to strip her of her ability to ever even touch these markets again. So beyond just basic counseling, I would see the role of a prison sentence exclusively as a deterrent for other people wanting to try something similar. Is a life sentence therefore justified? I don’t think so; I think that sort of Norwegian model of “no life sentences, but we can reevaluate when your sentence is up if the crime is serious enough” is the most serious punishment warranted for basically any crime.
I’m conflicted on this one. State-sanctioned murder is never appropriate; that’s not what I’m conflicted about. This shouldn’t be happening, and if the state really does care about minimizing damage rather than retribution (the death penalty does not deter crime), they shouldn’t be putting a ticking clock on her; as her attorneys noted, these assets aren’t exactly liquid, and getting the most value from them takes time. If they make her sell them off in a fire sale, they’re likely to see a fraction of what they would have had before.
What I’m conflicted about is how long a sentence like this should even be. Prison should be primarily about rehabilitation and preventing harm during said rehabilitation and then secondarily as a way to deter crime. She hurt way more innocent people than even a murderer does, and it shows a disgusting selfishness. Yet here, rehabilitation barely plays into it, because even if she’s a massive piece of shit, a government like Vietnam’s has a ton of power to strip her of her ability to ever even touch these markets again. So beyond just basic counseling, I would see the role of a prison sentence exclusively as a deterrent for other people wanting to try something similar. Is a life sentence therefore justified? I don’t think so; I think that sort of Norwegian model of “no life sentences, but we can reevaluate when your sentence is up if the crime is serious enough” is the most serious punishment warranted for basically any crime.
I honestly don’t know. 20 years?
Being a billionaire is enough to get 20 years in my books. Nobody can earn a billion. It can ONLY be stolen.