It&#x27;s a pointless signalling thread where people are falling all over themselves to say &quot;Awww, that&#x27;s nice. Oh, it gives me hope for the world.&quot; It&#x27;s akin to a story about a cop who adopts an abused dog that they found at a crime scene and nurses it back to health. Hence, people are falling all over themselves to disapprove of my disapproval as if it were a competition. It&#x27;s the kind of thread that &quot;attracts low quality responses&quot; as dang would say - but HN is more tolerant towards low quality threads that don&#x27;t devolve into ideological wars.<p>Here&#x27;s my stance: I don&#x27;t believe in cruel <i>or unusual</i> punishment. I believe that defendants who &quot;remind me of my son&quot; or &quot;remind me of me, when I was a kid&quot; or &quot;me, if I had made one wrong choice&quot; get better treatment than the heartless superpredators that don&#x27;t look like the judges son.