The assertion that in order to decrease the number of crimes, one must tighten the punishments is false for two reasons.
The latest amendment to Polish Penal Code is based on the philosophy if retaliation, lex talionis or an ‘eye for the eye’ principle, which have been applied in Europe in the 19th century. It is worth mentioning that then pickpockets came to rob viewers who were watching public applying of the punishment of cutting the hands of the other thieves.
The authors of the amendm...
