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most people rightly oppose slavery. but confining people to cages for years at a time is pretty bad too. if it's possible to justify imprisonment in the first p
by leetcrew 8y ago
most people rightly oppose slavery. but confining people to cages for years at a time is pretty bad too. if it's possible to justify imprisonment in the first place, are all forms of forced labor significantly worse? what if the prisoners get training as webdevs and have to spend 6-8 hours on weekdays improving the UI of government websites. they get an aeron chair, free coffee, ping pong, etc., and when they get released they have some experience to list on their resume. kind of an absurd proposal, but hopefully it illustrates the point of my question: is it immoral to have them do literally anything to defray the cost of their imprisonment?
- AlexTWithBeard 8y agoYour proposal is not absurd. They used to do it in the Soviet Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka). Not exactly aeron chairs and ping pong tables, but way better than the regular prison camp.
- conanbatt 8y agoThe thing is that then the warden sells of the inmates to make money on himself or through the state. California paid inmates fighting fires a dollar an hour.
- leetcrew 8y agothis is a non sequitur to my post. I asked a pretty specific question that you have not answered in your reply.
- conanbatt 8y agoDid you edit your post? Im pretty sure I answered something that was above the first paragraph and isn't there anymore. Otherwise it was meant for some other post, disregard.
- leetcrew 8y agonope, only edit was to correct my spelling of "aeron". no worries, I often reply to the wrong post in deep threads.
- CarlSchmitt 8y ago> is it immoral to have them do literally anything to defray the cost of their imprisonment? It depends on your definition of immoral...