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I agree with everything you said, but I feel that a large part of the population enjoys judging and punishing people. It's a large and dark part of human natur
by busyant 10y ago
I agree with everything you said, but I feel that a large part of the population enjoys judging and punishing people.
It's a large and dark part of human nature.
There is a secondary problem as well: true rehabilitation seems incredibly difficult.
I think we should strive for rehabilitation, but the combination of human nature and the difficulty of making people better gets us where we are.
- rev_bird 10y ago>incredibly difficult Not to mention very expensive. People hate the idea of spending $50,000 a year making a rapist into a better person when the government won't pay for their kids' college instead.
- zeofig 10y agoOf course, it costs even more to instead put the rapist in a "privatised" supermax where he is subjected to various state-funded tortures that quickly turn him into an even worse kind of animal...