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We should adjust our justice systems to this cycle. You can sit in jail for max 7years. After that you are considered a different person. The justice apparatus
by aluhut 10y ago
We should adjust our justice systems to this cycle. You can sit in jail for max 7years. After that you are considered a different person. The justice apparatus needs to use that 7 years to form this new person in a way that it can behave according to the outside system.
- hugh4 10y agoThat makes no sense whatsoever. Yes, I know I'm banned. Hello, people with showdead on!
- andyidsinga 10y agoThere's something to what you're saying here! - the justice system, and the people involved with it need a real change in mindset. It isn't that you might be a different physical person after 7 years, but a different person based on the current context! There was a great invisibilia podcast on the subject : http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/482836315/the-personality-myth?showDate=2016-06-24 http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/482836315/the-person... See also (referenced in podcast) : http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/indiv_pages/mischel/Walter_Mischel.html http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/indiv_pages/mischel/Wa...