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Let me take a different tack on this response. If what you say is true, then why is this not an explicit part of our criminal justice system? Why are there no
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Let me take a different tack on this response.
If what you say is true, then why is this not an explicit part of our criminal justice system? Why are there no laws and regulations which spell out the brutalities that prisoners should be exposed to? Why is the process not formalized, institutionalized, documented, and routine?
Why has there been no public campaign to repeal or modify the 8th amendment to the US constitution (banning cruel and unusual punishments)? Or to set new legal precedent in the UK to invalidate the equivalent protections in the English/British constitutions? If it is such a foundationally important part of a well-functioning society then why is it not being talked about and debated above board?
- vorg 13y agoThe law of the U.S. and other countries is full of such two-tiered systems, i.e. what is written and what is well-known, e.g. "Don't ask, don't tell". All human society works that way; we learn it at home and at school.