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Actually, solitary confinement is pretty standard in Denmark. And for that reason, the UN has even raised concerns about it. Not that anything has happened in
by Svip 13y ago
Actually, solitary confinement is pretty standard in Denmark. And for that reason, the UN has even raised concerns about it. Not that anything has happened in this regard.
- cylinder 13y agoVery odd that supposedly advanced Denmark would impose barbaric solitary confinement. How we as a species still get away with this tactic is beyond me.
- tedunangst 13y agoDefinitions of advanced and barbaric vary wildly.
- mjn 13y agoIn particular, what Denmark considers really barbaric are long sentences: 10, 20, 30+ years are quite unusual. Most sentences are less than 2 years, with a handful of severe sentences in the high single-digit range.
- Amygaz 13y agoThe list of things that are beyond me, and probably many member on this board can be quite long. A radical example is: who decided that planet Earth belonged to a bunch of corrupted politicians and executives and not the rest of us, preventing people to roam freely, and to freely decide where they can live, work, raise their family...
- macspoofing 13y ago200,000 years of history
- sounds 13y agoTo argue against the line "it's only natural that the corrupt seize power" look no further than the various cases where decency and enlightenment prevailed. Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.