Should Celebrities Receive Stricter Penalties
Celebrities Over Everyone? Three months in jail? or three years in jail? over the exact same crime. Only difference, you receive three years and Justin Bieber receives three months. We always here about A-listers wanting to be treated like ordinary people, but once you bring the topic of crime up, they immediately go in to self-defense. Celebrities should be receiving stricter penalties because they’re humans too, they broke the law, and while non-celebrities are serving eight years in jail for their mistakes, celebrities are receiving half of that sentence. Celebrities should be receiving stricter penalties because they’re not that special when it comes to situations like this. It’s all common sense and celebrities aren’t facing the consequences they’re supposed to, just because they are who they are. For example, let’s say out of self-defense you kill someone and you go to jail on the account of serving nine months. On the other hand, let’s say an
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Think about it like this, if your daughter does something she’s not supposed to and you don’t tell her anything about it, because she’s your daughter, that would be very irrational. That applies for celebrities too, giving a celebrity a small penalty just because of who they are will only accustom them into doing whatever they want and not getting any type of consequence for it. With that thought in mind do you still think giving an ordinary person a stricter penalty than a celebrity is fair? Most of the modern celebrities we see today aren’t born famous and neither were we. What I’m trying to say is that if some celebrity that committed a crime weren’t famous would they still be receiving the same penalty they are now? That’s exactly what I mean. This system that we have these days isn’t the best and with all these stupid choices we as humans are making, we aren’t working in to making the world a better and safer place for any of
Think about it like this, if your daughter does something she’s not supposed to and you don’t tell her anything about it, because she’s your daughter, that would be very irrational. That applies for celebrities too, giving a celebrity a small penalty just because of who they are will only accustom them into doing whatever they want and not getting any type of consequence for it. With that thought in mind do you still think giving an ordinary person a stricter penalty than a celebrity is fair? Most of the modern celebrities we see today aren’t born famous and neither were we. What I’m trying to say is that if some celebrity that committed a crime weren’t famous would they still be receiving the same penalty they are now? That’s exactly what I mean. This system that we have these days isn’t the best and with all these stupid choices we as humans are making, we aren’t working in to making the world a better and safer place for any of