I was going to downvote your post in contemptuous anger, but your ideas for the penal system reform have completely captured my attention.

I'm only part-joking, too. Can we get to a better society by punishing transgressions with an obligation to read and summarize opposing views? There's a thought...

It seems a bit too close to the Communist indoctrination methods (read Marx, write essay, repeat for several years), but maybe a botched implementation should not completely discourage us from finding a working one.