Originally Posted by
bafanguy
Yep...the perps get off no foul. It's all about protecting the perp since the airlines are just bags of money and won't miss the cost of the diversion. Inconvenience to all the other pax ? Who cares...
Conversely:
The purpose of punishment is to deter: people will think twice about misbehaving if there is a severe consequence. They make a rational choice and avoid the consequence.
Insane people, pretty much by definition, don't think rationally about the consequences of their actions, and so the threat of punishment is not a deterrent.
From this it follows that imposing severe, draconian punishment on insane people doesn't really accomplish much, in that it doesn't really deter other insane people from misbehaving.