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Exactly. Prison culture is a mirror of our collective psyche. We as a society are gleefully accepting of cruel and unreasonable punishment, with a disturbing l
by andrei_says_ 3y ago
Exactly. Prison culture is a mirror of our collective psyche.
We as a society are gleefully accepting of cruel and unreasonable punishment, with a disturbing level of bloodthirstiness.
Similarly, we are accepting of the merciless brutality of Healthcare-as-industry.
The unspeakable violence of poverty.
We have hardened our hearts in order to see, walk by, live along these, and more, sources of easily preventable suffering.
This hardening is making us sick, too. We just somehow can't make the connection.
- sershe 3y agoPoverty is the default state of humanity. There's no unspeakable violence in it. Not to mention that "poverty" in the US is a luxurious lifestyle by worldwide standards (source: I'm an immigrant, and not even from the poorest country by far). It would be really strange if observing the default state of humanity would make humans sick. Ditto for punishment - historically punishments have been much more harsh (the only modern innovation that I'd really support for violent and property crime is dealing with is reducing false convictions; 3-strike type laws deal with that well, I wish they were more widespread). The mental health / politics correlation in the US, especially in recent years, seems to indicate that it's being excessively bleeding-heart that's making "us" sick.