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And how exactly is forcing felons who have served their time to become homeless due to a complete inability to become employed good news?

Thrillington 10y ago
It's great news to the I've-got-mine libertarian insanity that's so prevalent on this site.
VLM 10y ago
Its great news for those who have not served time but have become homeless due to a complete inability to become employed. No matter how thin you slice the piece of cheese there's always going to be a top half and a bottom half and agonizing over the suffering result of intentional misbehavior, ignores the larger pool of suffering experienced by those who never did anything wrong, other than maybe not be born in the right place, or to the right parents, or the right skin color, or the right gender, etc. I'm not going to wring my hands at the injustice committed against a felon because some law school grad who never committed a felony can now get a law job, solely because a felon can't. I find it hilarious social commentary that the average HN commenter commiserates with felons but not with the lower 99% of the working population.
- _jal 10y ago
  Before you laugh yourself silly at the hilarity, you may give some thought to the various paths to being labeled a felon. Put the Prenda sociopaths aside, and look at the treatment of members of that 99% on the school->prison pipeline, as just one example. You might just find that the injustices you do recognize are linked to the ones you laugh at.
  - VLM 10y ago
    One injustice is infinite when held in isolation, but a collection of injustices is a social hierarchy. In the vast pile of injustice that is our culture, where felons fall into the hierarchy is unfortunate in isolation, yet simultaneously is also an infinitesimal fraction of the sum of injustice.
    - _jal 10y ago
      You can minimize the importance of just about anything that way. But I'm glad we at least got to "unfortunate in isolation"; baby steps.

Thrillington 10y ago

It's great news to the I've-got-mine libertarian insanity that's so prevalent on this site.

VLM 10y ago

Its great news for those who have not served time but have become homeless due to a complete inability to become employed. No matter how thin you slice the piece of cheese there's always going to be a top half and a bottom half and agonizing over the suffering result of intentional misbehavior, ignores the larger pool of suffering experienced by those who never did anything wrong, other than maybe not be born in the right place, or to the right parents, or the right skin color, or the right gender, etc. I'm not going to wring my hands at the injustice committed against a felon because some law school grad who never committed a felony can now get a law job, solely because a felon can't. I find it hilarious social commentary that the average HN commenter commiserates with felons but not with the lower 99% of the working population.

_jal 10y ago
Before you laugh yourself silly at the hilarity, you may give some thought to the various paths to being labeled a felon. Put the Prenda sociopaths aside, and look at the treatment of members of that 99% on the school->prison pipeline, as just one example. You might just find that the injustices you do recognize are linked to the ones you laugh at.
- VLM 10y ago
  One injustice is infinite when held in isolation, but a collection of injustices is a social hierarchy. In the vast pile of injustice that is our culture, where felons fall into the hierarchy is unfortunate in isolation, yet simultaneously is also an infinitesimal fraction of the sum of injustice.
  - _jal 10y ago
    You can minimize the importance of just about anything that way. But I'm glad we at least got to "unfortunate in isolation"; baby steps.