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While a good thing, a losing battle in my opinion. You can perhaps convince your local authorities to not build another prison here this year, but somewhere els
by pope_meat 5y ago
While a good thing, a losing battle in my opinion. You can perhaps convince your local authorities to not build another prison here this year, but somewhere else another prison still got built. There isn't enough people who give a shit, and an alarming amount of people who are rock hard for cruel punishment as a good thing.
Unbuild the existing prisons.
John Brown didn't write letters, he burned down plantations.
- iammisc 5y agoAre you advocating for the violent destruction of government property? Is that allowed on hacker news?
- pope_meat 5y agoit doesn't have to be violent. structures feel nothing.
- iammisc 5y agoSo destroying public property is not violence now? Okay... thanks I guess.
- tikwidd 5y agoThe US prison system is an ongoing act of violence. Destroying and replacing them with humane systems should reduce violence.
- pope_meat 5y agoI think destroying something like water treatment plants, or gas pipelines could be constituted as violence, but not prisons, not in a country with the highest prison population per capita in the world. i refuse to believe that the people here are inherently more criminal and dangerous than anywhere else in the world, and if that belief is correct then our over-packed prisons are a sign of a legal system that got way out of control, but due to the size of the system and it's inertia, it will continue to self perpetuate unless challenged. Due to just how many peoples lives are intertwined with this machine, i don't see a civil path forward to a solution. It was the same case with slavery in this nation, we all knew it was a problem, but because too much money was tied in the economy supporting it...nothing changed until people took to civil disobedience. if you don't want bulldozers, perhaps write to your representatives, and urge them to do something before the modern day John Browns start doing it for them.
- seattle_spring 5y agoWhat sort of weird strawman are you trying to build here? Or did GP edit their comment in a way that made your's nonsensical?
- iammisc 5y agoGP said > John Brown didn't write letters, he burned down plantations. That's a clear call to violence imo.