• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Many murderers murder openly and don’t get any jail time at all. Cause they are elected politicians.

    Other than that - the purpose of the penitentiary system is not to punish people, it’s to redeem them. At least in theory. You don’t have any right to punish other people (well, an eye for an eye may do, if there’s no other way, but that’s the worst that’s acceptable), especially with such intentional destruction as a life sentence.

    So your very approach is criminal intent.

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      1 year ago

      Bad news on your rosy world view, but the real reason for our penitentiary system is to create slave labor.

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        1 year ago

        There are conversations where the actuality matters, and there are conversations where the criteria matter, and there are also conversations where the dynamic matters. You mixed up this one.

        I mean, everybody talking about someone else’s rosy worldview or otherwise playing a cynic is usually clueless.