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It's nice to think that there's a prison where inmates are not just allowed to rot. That how our prisons should work. It may not satisfy a human being's need
by kiba 13y ago
It's nice to think that there's a prison where inmates are not just allowed to rot.
That how our prisons should work. It may not satisfy a human being's need for retribution, but when did inflicting harm more than what's necessary to keep humans safe ever did for humanity?
Anytime you jail a human being, you're using up resources to feed them, shelter them, and protect them from dangerous human beings. That cost taxpayer money. Why not get something out of the condemned by fixing them and studying them and making them better so that the prison system will collapse because it's so effective at repairing? (Of course, there are human beings that may be unfixable, but the vast majority probably are)
- cardamomo 13y ago> Why not get something out of the condemned by fixing them and studying them and making them better I understand your point--prisons can be rehabilitative or educational institutions rather than fulfilling a purely retributive function--but your language is setting off some alarm bells for me. We ought to shift from using the language of "fixing" people to helping people or, in many cases, fixing the system.
- thaumasiotes 13y ago> Why not get something out of the condemned by fixing them and studying them and making them better I am also disturbed by this language. Historically, the best case for attempts to "fix" other people is that nothing happens.
- tommorris 13y agoBeware this line of thought. The justice system in the United States used to try and "fix" the poor and the "feeble-minded" by sterilizing them. Men and women sterilized to "protect" society from them, and produce a more wonderful race. Or perhaps we could look back to the electro-convulsive therapy and forced hormone treatment used to "fix" gay men (Alan Turing, for instance). Turns out that sometimes it is the societies need fixing rather than the people.