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Why are we so eager to treat people according to the worst of them? It’s always “some may misuse it: take it from all of them.” It’s an insane way to treat huma
by okwubodu 5y ago
Why are we so eager to treat people according to the worst of them? It’s always “some may misuse it: take it from all of them.” It’s an insane way to treat human beings.
I don’t know how someone can call this justice with a straight face.
- rhizome 5y ago"A little bad is all bad," is an instance of hypodescent, the same morality that gave us the one-drop rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
- whatshisface 5y agoPrison operators are held accountable for crimes committed in their prisons, but they aren't rewarded for teaching prisoners.
- lookalike74 5y agoPrison operators turning a blind eye to guards openly selling contraband and cellphone access to prisoners is not only criminal but rampant. A federal prison in the southeastern U.S. recently transferred 90% of their inmates to other facilities and banned staff due to the incredible corruption there. And sorry, but teaching prisoners starts with the prisons funding teachers, not 'rewards.'
- jerry1979 5y agoWas that Atlanta?
- beebeepka 5y agoWe all know it's just a pretext
- ravi-delia 5y agoI'm deeply sympathetic to this viewpoint, and definitely oppose book bans and restrictions. That being said, I think you're misinterpreting OP's perspective. They aren't (at least not deliberately) proposing these restrictions out as some punishment for immorality, they're specifically concerned about safety. If significant numbers of people die that wouldn't die if books were restricted, that's at least an argument for a ban. Again, I'm not saying at anything near enough people die due to book-organized hits to swing the scales. That seems...unlikely, to say the least. I'd just argue that there's a difference between keeping all the kids in at recess and hits being called.
- didibus 5y ago> If significant numbers of people die that wouldn't die if books were restricted, that's at least an argument for a ban The same argument is made for guns, and that hasn't gone very well to convince anyone.
- ravi-delia 5y agoIt is an argument though, rather than blind word association. However bad these freedom restricting arguments are, the kind of moral panic the commenter I replied to implied the commenter they replied to felt.
- okwubodu 5y agoEven if librarian gangs were a widespread enough issue, focusing on the medium (books) instead of the cause (we're not living up to our stated purpose of rehabilitation) to me says that the prison isn’t as interested in inmate safety as they’d like to claim.
- ravi-delia 5y agoOh yeah we're in complete agreement there.
- rpmisms 5y agoThis applies outside the prison system as well. See: Guns, Kinder Eggs, Hate Speech laws.