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I think the government should be held to a higher standard when applying the law than a random Joe Citizen. Governments should be more like "don't be evil" than
by praptak 2y ago
I think the government should be held to a higher standard when applying the law than a random Joe Citizen. Governments should be more like "don't be evil" than "intentionally find every underspecified law and stretch it to its limits to make people's lives worse".
This seems like the latter.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoThey call it a monopoly on violence for a reason.
- jerlam 2y agoAlas, people don't want to spend money to make prison better and some particularly want prison to be as bad as legally possible (or worse), under the impression that it will deter criminal behavior.
- drewcoo 2y agoWhich says as much about the state of education for the non-imprisoned as anything else . . .