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The common failure mode is to index broad policy on single instances of failure. You're never, ever, no matter what, going to stop all instances. Trying to desi
by arcticbull 4y ago
The common failure mode is to index broad policy on single instances of failure. You're never, ever, no matter what, going to stop all instances. Trying to design a policy that eliminates all instances can actually increase the number of instances.
You can't craft good policy that way. Rehabilitation, low recidivism, etc are far more important than revenge in optimizing the global situation.
It's better this one killer serve out a sentence on their PS2, away from society, than creating 10 killers in the first place and executing them to satisfy bloodlust.
- notch898c 4y ago[flagged]
- arcticbull 4y agoIf it prevents the creation of even 2 other killers then I would not. Bloodlust doesn't make good policy. America has plenty of mass killings in states with the death penalty. Results are what matters. Kudos to penal systems that actually understand that instead of kowtowing to public pressure.
- slibhb 4y agoThe idea that the US has lots of mass shooting because of the death penalty (or the reverse for Norway) seems unlikely.
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- tadfisher 4y agoThat's precisely the point.
- notch898c 4y agoNorway overhauled their prison system in the late 90s, and their per capita mass shootings since then far outweigh the US. They're at like 20x the US for 2009-2015. Even if you do the total rehabilitative 20 years or so of data they're at least 4x worse than the US in per capita mass shooting. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shoo...
- dryrun 4y agoA single point of data in Norway makes it the leader? As stated in the article, this is clearly a failure of statistics more than a proof that the US is OK.
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