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> That’s all well and good until innocent people get caught in the net. Is your position that no innocent people were convicted of crimes before the reforms, o
by starspangled 2y ago
> That’s all well and good until innocent people get caught in the net.
Is your position that no innocent people were convicted of crimes before the reforms, or that innocent people do not get caught in the crimes that have been reduced so dramatically?
> How many thousands of young people are worth incarcerating indefinitely and without legal recourse for the benefit of society?
And how many young people are not killed or maimed or dragged into a life of crime indefinitely and without recourse in the alternative?
As I said, I acknowledge the issues with it, but no social policy is perfect and all social policy is a balance. You can't pull out "human rights" as a trump card to say Bukele's policies are bad or worse than before. Because you are confining and defining human rights in a very narrow specific way, and that does not account for many other rights of many other classes of people.