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One overlooked area are the incentives for fixing it: the state requires legitimacy and respect. They need it to feel odd that they could do any wrong. They nee
by vmception 6y ago
One overlooked area are the incentives for fixing it: the state requires legitimacy and respect. They need it to feel odd that they could do any wrong. They need it to be an absurd debate that they could be wrong, that they can arbitrarily ruin your life, and that there is no real or likely capability of appeal or review that results in your freedom.
This misaligned incentives need to be addressed as well.
Judges, district attorneys, mayors, governors, and prosecutors all hem and haw at the idea of revisiting a case.
It isn't possible for there to be enough podcasts and documentaries that gain the public interest in a case.
- bmitc 6y agoThis and many other things lead me to believe the U.S. is much less free than people would like to admit it to be. It’s just a different flavor of such unfreedom.
- vmception 6y ago> lead me to believe well, that's a start. it has the largest amount of people in prison in both per capita and in absolute numbers. many of those people are taking plea deals simply because they cannot afford their rights. the primary difference between the US and other systems is that we are apologists for the US system and simply don't respect other systems and thats the only distinction. people are conditioned to retort by comparing the US with the worst countries in the world, to rationalize why we're the best in a race nobody is even in. this is a mental disease. they're conditioned to dismiss flaws by saying "but at least we can talk about it", deflecting further discussion about the state of the system to a comfortable imagined assurance of consequence free speech, ignoring the exceptions to that part of the Bill of Rights and the other 9 amendments in it, amongst every other article and procedural gaff