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Originally Posted by DtheP47
All bans/punishments should be harsh. Not only to have a punitive effect on the guilty but to act as a deterrent to others. Simple.
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but thousands of years of history show us that hard deterrents don't work.
See America and its move to longer harder prison sentences.
Some crime in particular murder and rape continue to rise along with the prison population but they fail to deal with the real issues at hand as to why the crime is occurring or why the rule breaking is occurring.
Giving Rob a large ban wont really matter to the bloke, his reputation has been damaged, it would be fair to assume he wont likely work in football again, Stanley's reputation has been dealt a blow - do you really think a harder deterrent would have made a blind bit of difference in this instance or any others?
In this instance, education is the answer.