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I think there are many reasons this is morally and politically unacceptable. But to name just one practical objection: this would only intensify policing of bo
by bwestergard 5y ago
I think there are many reasons this is morally and politically unacceptable.
But to name just one practical objection: this would only intensify policing of borders (internal to a state's territory or otherwise). Siberian exiles of Tsarist Russia were quite frequently able to make it back to the urban west. Leon Trotsky is one famous example.
- mc32 5y agoYou could ease concerns by making it a choice. Regular prison with whatever sentence or they can live out their sentence in this area. They’d make the rules they live by. There is no “man”. It’s just them.
- bwestergard 5y agoAt that point, you might as well just have a genuinely rehabilitative prison area of the kind many European countries run. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast%C3%B8y_Prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast%C3%B8y_Prison
- lopatin 5y agoSimilarly Stalin was sent to Siberian prisons/work camps in early life. Every time he managed to talk his way out with the guards. Though unlike Trotsky, he went east afterwards.