[vdaniuk]

Everything, with the exception of pacifisim, you say is logical and rational, however failure of the revenge/"justice" strategy is either by design or emergent from stakeholder conflicts of interests.

Why not promote pacifism? Existential security of the US is guaranteed by military supremacy, average daily life security of the US citizen in comparison with other western countries is quite low.[0]

I think that the main problem of the US society's approach to punishment/justice/war is rooted in deontological ethics, which stems from high religiosity and "american values" propaganda.

Adopting a more consequentialist ethics approach would help to switch social consensus from punishment to rehabilitation, from doing what is "right"(definition that is coopted by politicians and media) to doing what is useful.

One can only dream. I believe that AI originated societal change is more probable than massive perception shift, though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics

[ivanca]

We don't need social perception shift, they just need to do it. We have seen they do many things that the public disagrees with (eg. NSA Spying, Iraq war, etc) they might as well do something good.