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Originally Posted by iquitafter100k
Rehabilitation and being treated humanely does more good in the long run than harsh punishments. Just compare the USA prison system and Norway's one for example.
Think a few guys in here are missing this dichotomy and hopefully I make sense when I break it down:
In the mainstream, if you're not shady, things can go as they should and you can continue doing what you like (obv w/ life skills involved). If you're shady and caught, there is a wide range of punishment from simply having your reputation tarnished/losing money to being given the death penalty. Rehabilitation is along that spectrum, but it doesn't allow that person to be involved near their area of crime.
In poker backing, if you're not shady, things can go as they should and you can continue with it (w/ poker skill involved). If you're shady and caught, the range of punishment is having your reputation tarnished to being unable to receive further investment, to possibly a physical threat. That's literally it. The only things at risk are reputation, words, and maybe the rare incident of bodily harm. It's actually more common that the shady person's money isn't even at risk.
So it's highly unhelpful for people to become apologists or argue for leniency, since you basically negate the very few tools of response investors have, unlike in the mainstream. If you want to privately forgive them or give them second chances, go ahead--but in the context of poker backing, you're definitely doing more harm than good by acting as though a thread like this or MP removal is unfair or unwarranted or some other sense of asking us to stop picking on them.