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A smaller percent than if it were the actual Gulag?
by evan_ 14y ago
A smaller percent than if it were the actual Gulag?
- grandalf 14y agoOk fair enough, but considering that gulags are known to us via old propaganda stories and prisons are part of the modern human rights (intellectual) blind spot that most affluent western people suffer from, it's not surprising that you consider them drastically different. In my opinion, the notion of almost certain rape and being locked into a cell with a violent individual in a system where violence is tolerated is about as cruel a punishment as one could possibly inflict. The worst psychological torture combined with brutal physical subjugation.
- CamperBob2 14y agoGoing to take a wild guess here, and speculate that you haven't read any Solzhenitsyn.
- grandalf 14y agoI have not. I realize there are things that are more horrific on a larger scale of human suffering, but for the individuals involved at a micro level the US system is cruel and unusual to the extreme.