>In the US I find there's often a notion of revenge It's more insidious than that. We just want people we're afraid of out of our daily reality, and we want it

>In the US I find there's often a notion of revenge It's more insidious than that. We just want people we're afraid of out of our daily reality, and we want it cheap. Once we throw someone in prison, our goal is accomplished. Very few people care what happens next, as long as they don't escape. Incarceration is vengeful because the cheapest and most natural way to do it is to lock a bunch of violent people with nothing to lose in the same room and tell a small army to keep them under control. I'd argue we didn't design it to be brutal, we just don't care that it is.