Thoughts on “restorative justice?”

[All Along The Watchtower]

I’m in the “sounds nice in theory from a distance, but rapidly falls apart upon closer examination” camp myself. Much like an end-stage-of-history Communist utopia.

And much like Marxism, there’s an is-ought problem in that it identifies a lot of genuine problems with the “is” but not only has a fuzzy and in many ways problematic idea of the “ought”, but has no means of bridging the gap between description and prescription without resulting in absolutely horrific catastrophe—assuming the implementation is taken to its logical conclusion.

You can’t get there from here…