It doesn't really matter. Whether it's 51% or 99% of people "doing harm", there's still a percentage of people in jail for such things as: - copyright violat

It doesn't really matter. Whether it's 51% or 99% of people "doing harm", there's still a percentage of people in jail for such things as: - copyright violation - jaywalking - possessing marijuana - peeing outside within 100 yards of a minor - a 17 and 18 year old in a committed relationship having consensual sex - "obscenity" - [medically necessary] abortion [of a pregnancy due to rape from a family member] - being gay in the military Let me remind you (& everyone) that this is not normal outside of our very fucked up country. We lock up so many more people that the next 3 biggest countries combined still don't lock up as much as we do. We have an incarceration problem. So, ignore those, and focus on the violent crimes again. Why do we have so many more violent criminals than anyone else? Do we still think this is just totally normal, and we can't do anything about it, so fuck it, lock them up and throw away the key? If we were talking about any other metric of a healthy population (child death rate, inability to get food or housing, infectious disease rate, etc) we would be actually working to change these numbers rather than just building more places to stick the people we don't want to think about. Maybe the fact that there are so many violent crimes is a good enough reason for us to start rethinking our policies, what makes our fucked up citizens act this way, and how we can begin to turn the tide. Or we can give into apathy and say, fuck it.