2 ms·So do the police/courts if your dad goes to jail. It's incidental to their purpose.by encom 6mo agoSo do the police/courts if your dad goes to jail. It's incidental to their purpose.esseph 6mo ago"The purpose of a system is what it does"its_ethan 6mo agoSo... what exactly is your argument here? The children of a man who is convicted and sent to prison should also go to prison, so as to avoid separation? Or that we just don't send men to prison if they have children?