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What's individualistic about collective responsibility? Or about "1 chance and you're dead"? It seems unrelated if not contradictory. If you believe in indivi
by ajuc 3y ago
What's individualistic about collective responsibility? Or about "1 chance and you're dead"?
It seems unrelated if not contradictory.
If you believe in individualism you should be vehemant that you treat each criminal independently and only punish them for things they personally did, right?
And if it's individualism you like - you should give people second chances because you value them and believe in their potential to change.
What USA does with its criminal system feels more like collectivism TBH - "we don't care who did it - you all die and let that be an example to others". Wouldn't be out of place in USSR.
I hate these cultural excuses, they fall apart after thinking about them for 5 seconds.
- ethbr1 3y ago> What USA does with its criminal system feels more like collectivism TBH - "we don't care who did it - you all die and let that be an example to others". Could you walk me through how that's your appraisal of the US justice system?
- ajuc 3y ago> Within hours, police picked up a suspect, who said Ford was his partner. They arrested Ford, who was 18 at the time, the following day. He has maintained that the two men who entered the house were brothers, and that he was outside in the car the whole time. There was no physical evidence clearly connecting him to the crime. He was so confident that a jury would believe him that he rejected a plea deal and took his case to trial in July 1993. He lost. By October, at age 20, he was on death row.
- ethbr1 3y agoYes. I assume you've studied statistics too?