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Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.

• lesbianmonad 17y ago
  The writing off mass injustice and suffering as 'semantics' notwithstanding, you might enjoy learning that 'parasite' described those in Greek and Roman society who earned their daily meals by entertaining and flattering at the dinner tables of the rich Hopefully you appreciate the irony in the word now describing those forced to live in incarceration, to satisfy a societal elite with a fetish for moralizing and punishment
  • TriinT 17y ago
    Are your views U.S.-centric?