Just so you don't think I am a total ass:
"Restorative Justice posits a paradigm shift that is best understood by asking the oft-quoted "three questions." Our present system of justice asks, "1. What laws have been broken?, 2. Who did it?, 3. What do they deserve?", whereas restorative justice asks, "1. Who has been hurt?, 2. What are their needs?, 3. Whose obligations are these?"
This seems reasonable...who has been hurt...what are their needs...whose obligations???
I still don't think it is possible to "restore" something that wasn't there in the first place. The whole premise of this type of thinking revolves around the idea that people really want to be "good."
And even though I am a Buddhist, I cannot get behind that notion. So my B.S. meter is wagging way over the top here.
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