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In my experience with church services, they're pretty much devoted to lessons about how to be a better person.
And how exactly are we going to define "better person"?
Someone in a gang, with a gang mentality, is going to think that belonging to his/her group, rather than the opposing one, makes you a much better person.
One problem is that we have no objective set of guidelines for what a moral person looks like. Many people (even leaders of some of these churches) think I'm the spawn of Satan because I think men can look pretty nifty naked. Others think that it's acceptable to bomb Planned Parenthood, because they are just a bunch of murderers. They all believe that these are moral, god-mandated beliefs.
But, realistically, that's only a small aspect of the problem. The real problem? Making this, in any way, about morality. As far as I'm concerned, that should have absolutely no say here.
To me, a just law is one that is created to protect the freedom and equality of peoples under its domain, which ultimately protects the social order of a community.
Punishments are made with that in mind and *should be* proportional to how you impeded someone else's liberty (which ultimately disrupts the social order).
I'm perfectly okay with community service as a punishment, since it forces someone to repay a community in proportion to how they injured it.
I'm not okay, at all, with someone bypassing the sentences other people receive because they are willing to go learn someone's version of morality. To me, morality had nothing to do with it from the start, and should have nothing to do with the sentence.