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"rejoin society" Only slightly derailing the conversation to point out that at current numbers and extrapolating some trends pretty soon the majority experienc
by VLM 10y ago
"rejoin society"
Only slightly derailing the conversation to point out that at current numbers and extrapolating some trends pretty soon the majority experience for some subgroups will be to have served some time in prison.
At that point where society = ex con for some small enough local value of society, I don't think doing time like everyone else is going to involve any problem rejoining society, when everyone in your society did time.
I mean, sure the odds of going to Stanford just dropped from 0.0001% to 0% which is very exciting for the theoretical 0.0001% person, but what kind of cultural influence can that possibly be for everyone else on either side given those numbers?
- nvahalik 10y agoPerhaps you misunderstood my comment. I meant that why do we pay for people to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison with no chance to live a "normal"—go to school, have a career, start a family, provide for themselves—life?