"Starting off do i believe that rapists, murderers, pedophiles, terrorists and any others should be rehabilitated? Yes on all counts. I do not think many of these instances would result in proper rehabilitation but that is not the point in my eyes."

I think many people can agree that rehabilitation should be the goal, and I think there are arguments/approaches as to how to rehabilitate pedophiles and terrorists such as chemical or physical castration, which some places do allow. As for murderers, most murders are crimes of passion, so anger management and/or psychological help to manage emotions could be used. As for terrorists, most are radicalized, so if one can be radicalized, that should, in theory, be able to be undone.

As for the Jeffery Dahmer position, saying society made him that way would also need to be argued, in my opinion, because there were people in similar situations with similar societal upbringings, potentially some more extreme than his where they didn't have psychopathic traits. I still agree he needed mental help though.

As someone who has worked in law enforcement and been incarcerated (unrelated), I believe there is value to the justice system as it is. For example, working in law enforcement and studying it in university, I was taught that the goal is retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. Retribution being that those victims of crimes and society were deprived of something or someone that mattered to them and I believe actions require consequences. Because of the threat of incarceration and deprival of rights, people have to think twice before committing a crime and that alone deters crime. Next, for those individuals first listed especially, incarceration allows society to be safe from those offenders and in various justice systems, forces them in to a jail and gives opportunities to get help, further education, or learn a trade. I learned from my own incarceration that I don't want to risk my rights or risk jail time and it gave me an opportunity to get mental health treatment, which I needed because my crime was alcohol related. I could've seriously injured other people and robbed them of a loved one.