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How can you defend someone who repeatedly vandalises a public space just so he can prance around a cell and say how horrible it is? It is easy enough to find pe

How can you defend someone who repeatedly vandalises a public space just so he can prance around a cell and say how horrible it is? It is easy enough to find people who have had these experience and document them. I am sure the math could be done on the actual cost of this persons misadventure. The cost of reporting the incident, trawling through CCTV, looking for the person responsible, holding the person responsible in a cell, processing the paper work, the courts time, cleaning up after him etc. It is likely to be tens of thousands of dollars when everything is said and done. Such a waste of resources just so someone could write a story about his experience.. Imagine if more people wanted to spend their weekend in a cell just to see what it is like.. its rediculous and takes the police and prosecutors away from dealing with real criminals. Granted some light has been shed on the state of the system in this article but the author could have achieved the same effect by interviewing people who have been through it.

gizzlon 13y ago
> How can you defend someone who .. I didn't really, I just pointed out that the "wasting of resources" argument is pretty silly since he actually used very little resources, in the scale of things. I do however think he did (try to) do something worthwhile, at a personal expense. > Imagine if more people wanted to spend their weekend in a cell just to see what it is like.. Yeah, call me when that happens. Also, it doesn't matter that it would be bad if everyone did it. What would happen if everyone decided to take the subway at 10.00 tomorrow? IT WOULD BE CHAOS!! Does that mean I can't take the subway at 10 tomorrow? > the author could have achieved the same effect by interviewing people who have been through it. No-one would read that.. I'm sure I can dig up thousands of pages of reports like that.. not exactly making the headlines.
mattmo10587 13y ago
> Such a waste of resources just so someone could write a story about his experience.. Dude...he didn't do it so that he could write about the experience, he did it so that we could read about it. That's a qualitative difference.

gizzlon 13y ago

> How can you defend someone who .. I didn't really, I just pointed out that the "wasting of resources" argument is pretty silly since he actually used very little resources, in the scale of things. I do however think he did (try to) do something worthwhile, at a personal expense. > Imagine if more people wanted to spend their weekend in a cell just to see what it is like.. Yeah, call me when that happens. Also, it doesn't matter that it would be bad if everyone did it. What would happen if everyone decided to take the subway at 10.00 tomorrow? IT WOULD BE CHAOS!! Does that mean I can't take the subway at 10 tomorrow? > the author could have achieved the same effect by interviewing people who have been through it. No-one would read that.. I'm sure I can dig up thousands of pages of reports like that.. not exactly making the headlines.

mattmo10587 13y ago

> Such a waste of resources just so someone could write a story about his experience.. Dude...he didn't do it so that he could write about the experience, he did it so that we could read about it. That's a qualitative difference.