It's time to bring back the cat o' nine tails

From Pro's argument he seems to think the Rich feel free to commit petty crimes petty crimes because they know they can pay the fines without a second thought. When they get the parking ticket they don't even flinch with the dread middle class does at having to take care of another bill. this is simply not the case though. The reason the rich are rich is they have an all-together different mindset than the poor. . http://www.cnbc.com... . http://www.daveramsey.com... the truth of the matter if you happen to get the chance to see a rich person get his petty fine and see his reaction, his lack of annoyance is coming from some arrogant attitude that he can park wherever he wants cause he has the cash to pay illegal parking fines; it comes from the sense of finance peace that he knows he has prepared an emergency fund to take care of unexpected payments like this (see baby step one in next link). . http://www.daveramsey.com... A rich person knows that often life throws unexpected payments their way, like fixing a car someone else totaled to much for insurance to cover, medical emergencies, ect. .. so to keep himself rich he saved 1,000 dollar emergency fund for those occasions, perhaps an even larger emergency fund. Financial Guru Dave Ramsey is often heard saying on is talk show 'when rich people start doing poor people stuff they become poor people' And if a Rich person really did park knowing there would be a fine, that's a poor people thing to do, giving himself an unnecessarily payment on purpose, like spending half you paycheck on lottery tickets. This rich person will pay by being on the road to loosing his money makes choices like that. A poor person has the same available ways of saving and developing a wise mindset, he could take Dave Ramsey's baby steps and save up a emergency fund to handle little mishaps like this and even this poor man can have financial peace over this petty fine problem. Their is no warrant for calling the situation unfair just because one man had prepared to handle a situation like this with financial peace while the other man did not. On to some new points of my own. I have little doubt that flogging by nine-tails being done in public will bring back imagery to peoples minds of the event in the video. For those who believe in God consider this perspective about the nine-tails; God found it extreme enough a punishment to satisfies Christ taking the punishment of mankind's sins away from them. . http://www.youtube.com... Whatever you as an individual believe about that though, it cannot be denied the imagery of that particular whipping coming to mind when people see the act. and because of that it comes off as inherently barbaric. We cannot have our Kids growing up with a disrespect of the police. right now the officer is just a man in a uniform doing his job when your dad has to pay a fine; but oh what psychological impression it will leave on the kids mind of the police when instead he thinks of them as the man that broke daddies spirit before he came home today. Its one thing to know the officer's actions made dads wallet bleed (the kid feels that's no big deal enough to contribute to making it bleed as well) but its quite anther to know that he made him literally bleed. even if the whipping doesn't manage to pierce the skin same principal of what kind of perception the next generation that grows up with police like that are left with of our good citizens in uniform. With this imagery being associated with them you will see an increase in crime rates. ideally you would want all your law enforcement to be able to enforce the law with the same level of respect 'the sheriff without a gun' has on the Andy Griffith show. Now respect for the police is no-where near the point where they could safely stop carrying sidearms yet, but reverting to the cat o' nine tails is moving in the opposite direction from such a ideal society. How could we successfully teach our kids to respect law enforcement agents who beat up their dad after he made a (in most cases with petty crimes) absent-minded mistake? And how could we think the rich need a different set of punishment for the same absent minded mistakes? I would hope for any citizen to be able to pursue the dream of financial peace regardless of the size of his weekly paycheck, I don't think one should be condemned to live a lifestyle that has the person live just on paycheck to paycheck. If a person wisely manages to rise above that lifestyle and has attained financial peace, joyously shouted on the radio 'I'M DEBT FREE! ', its clear the proper reward for that is that when they commit a petty crime they still leave with a peace of mind about their finances after paying the fine. The asymmetrical relationship between the rich man and the poor man who commit the petty crime in how much each one suffers when paying the fine is a wanted and deserved reward for the one with the smaller suffering.