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> How many thousands of young people are worth incarcerating indefinitely and without legal recourse for the benefit of society at large? You can actually do t
by csomar 2y ago
> How many thousands of young people are worth incarcerating indefinitely and without legal recourse for the benefit of society at large?
You can actually do the math for that. If the number of innocent people harmed by the gangs is more than the number of innocent people caught in the legal cross-fire then it is worth it.
- EA-3167 2y agoThat assumes a lot, most importantly that the harm is limited to "innocent person in prison" rather than, "Government has the power to throw anyone it wants into prison, effectively disappearing them." The history of these sort of measures is a history of a slide into something worse than whatever was being solved in the first place.