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The author probably only finds confinement-as-punishment morally unacceptable because he believes that just punishment will be meted out in the afterlife anyway
by bdhess 8y ago
The author probably only finds confinement-as-punishment morally unacceptable because he believes that just punishment will be meted out in the afterlife anyway. If you take away the assumption of religion, there's really no argument left.
- SolaceQuantum 8y agoI believe the discussion on the morality of making imprisonment the default choice is pretty interesting: "But we are not merely allowing the abomination of the prison. We are promoting it (and in popular culture and politics, romanticizing it). And in the case of the very limited number of those with deeply disordered desires, we are taking the tremendously difficult task of healing, a task best addressed locally, in families, neighborhoods, and communities, and elevating it the level of the state, where rationalized violence compounds and conceals the real harm that must be addressed."
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoIf he's appealing to Catholic social teaching and using that thinking, he's definitely missing the point. No proper Catholic would think, "We don't need to punish people now because they'll get theirs in the afterlife". That is absolutely not a Catholic view for a number of reasons.