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  There is a sense in which we have been told it is "bad" to want punishment for people who do bad stuff, and that has led directly to the abuse of the term "pc gone mad"!! I hate that phrase, because the implication is that it is wrong to seek to be ok, or "good" , that "pc" is somehow to blame or wrong. Being pc is ok, it is when we start to use it as an excuse to behave badly that is becomes clogged up and open to beating us up with.
  
  Obviously it is a bad thing to "bay for blood" - that is why the judicial system is sepeareted from the victims of crime, and quite right too. But it is ok to want justice to be served, and for the "bad guys" to be caught. BUT what we do with the bad guys will be indicative of how our society operates: if we continue to bay for blood we characterise ourselves as savages; if we seek a deeper and more humane solution we become human, grown up, and able to move forwards.

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