Exodus 22:16-17: "pre-marital sex" = the beginning of marriage?

[MemeFan]

Prisons protect the law abiding from the outlaws. So does the death penalty.

As far as restorative justice goes, NO.

There is no restoring murder victims, rape victims, victims of drunk drivers, and etc. All that can be done is to end the offender and relieve the victims of worrying about the SOB ever getting loose and coming after them.

No kidding, when I heard my father had died in prison I cried because I felt relief. I didn't give one single **** about him. Not at all. I was relieved that I never had to worry about him again.

And there was NOTHING he could have done to "restore" me.

I'm talking about restoring of social relationship. Read whole text, not half and start imagining what isn't written.

Prisons by themselves are unjust. Who pays for imprisonment? Victim. So victim suffers twice which isn't OK.

Sadly, but you must realize you issues with father is, in one part, caused by US legal system. What was incentive for him to have new decent relationship with you? None, because everything is locking people and punishing them.