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> I'm not sure I can look favorably at a murderer, or even someone that commits manslaughter or negligent homicide while drunk driving. You simply choose to.

> I'm not sure I can look favorably at a murderer, or even someone that commits manslaughter or negligent homicide while drunk driving. You simply choose to. It’s not easy, just like it’s not easy to “choose” to study or go to the gym, or do anything, but you just choose to. It’s hard, but you can choose a tit-for-tat mindset, it’s a proven strategy in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, which is very similar to life.

lupusreal 3y ago
> You simply choose to. It’s not easy I choose not to, not because doing otherwise would be difficult but because doing otherwise would violate my personal code. Why should I violate my personal code, because it's cheaper for the state if I do? I'm happy with my tax dollars being used to incarcerate rapists and murderers, that's money well spent. Lock these people up so they can't hurt people anymore and throw away the key. Damn the expense, give them what they deserve.
- piloto_ciego 3y ago
  What you’ve described isn’t a “personal code” it’s a desire for vengeance. I mean? You do you, but I reckon that seeking to hurt over seeking to rehabilitate hurts us more than it hurts the offender. I’m not a big fan acquiesce whenever the state says “bend over” but that’s not what choosing to view them as people is doing. The state wants us to fear and loathe our fellow man. When you talk about “giving them what they deserve” you play right into their hands. Hurt people hurt people, or something like that, so I don’t think hurting them harder is going to make them hurt less hard.
- tremon 3y ago
  I'm happy with my tax dollars being used to incarcerate rapists and murderers, that's money well spent So in your opinion 85% of the money spent on the prison system is wasted, since only 15% of the prison population consists of rapists and murderers?
  - lupusreal 3y ago
    I am open to the premise of not using incarceration for most nonviolent offenders. I don't support that in all cases (we're better off with Maddoff and Bankman-Fried in prison for life), but at least it's not an insane proposition. The total elimination of prison cells is insane though. Such a proposal does not deserve to be humored.

lupusreal 3y ago

> You simply choose to. It’s not easy I choose not to, not because doing otherwise would be difficult but because doing otherwise would violate my personal code. Why should I violate my personal code, because it's cheaper for the state if I do? I'm happy with my tax dollars being used to incarcerate rapists and murderers, that's money well spent. Lock these people up so they can't hurt people anymore and throw away the key. Damn the expense, give them what they deserve.

piloto_ciego 3y ago
What you’ve described isn’t a “personal code” it’s a desire for vengeance. I mean? You do you, but I reckon that seeking to hurt over seeking to rehabilitate hurts us more than it hurts the offender. I’m not a big fan acquiesce whenever the state says “bend over” but that’s not what choosing to view them as people is doing. The state wants us to fear and loathe our fellow man. When you talk about “giving them what they deserve” you play right into their hands. Hurt people hurt people, or something like that, so I don’t think hurting them harder is going to make them hurt less hard.
tremon 3y ago
I'm happy with my tax dollars being used to incarcerate rapists and murderers, that's money well spent So in your opinion 85% of the money spent on the prison system is wasted, since only 15% of the prison population consists of rapists and murderers?
- lupusreal 3y ago
  I am open to the premise of not using incarceration for most nonviolent offenders. I don't support that in all cases (we're better off with Maddoff and Bankman-Fried in prison for life), but at least it's not an insane proposition. The total elimination of prison cells is insane though. Such a proposal does not deserve to be humored.