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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
I'm struggling to be objective about anything these days. In pain and focus is turned inward like the light of a blazing sun. Everything taken in by my mind and senses is distorted by it. Scorched and parched, nothing can grow in this.
Wanted to write thoughts about how pointless and inhumane prisons seem to me. How much resources are poured into literally nothing but creating misery. But I can't form any coherent argument really. Thoughts of a silly child minus any good nature.
I feel like the reverse of a self teaching AI. I am unraveling. Blurring and fading.
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Speaking for myself, I have observed the moral obstacle presented by prison. However, the relevant question for an Economist like me is the so-called 'Signal' problem. How many times are crimes unpunished? For instance, we might suppose that in the case of petty crimes like theft the thief goes unpunished 1 in 5 times. For instance, I was victim of a hacker who bought an Apple Macintosh computer using my information. Although there were a variety of solutions including an investigation by the Bank, the Police, and Amazon Fraud protection, I have not been notified that the criminal was caught.
We assume that murderers are punished almost 100% of the time. However, thieves are unpunished at least some of the time. The idea, of course, is that certain crimes need to be punished 100% of the time (crimes involving 'hard' drugs like LSD). While petty thieves and fraudulent use of Credit Cards may be punished 20% of the time. But, speaking for myself, I almost lost more than $2,000, and I would be unsurprised if the thief had stolen more than $10,000 of goods in his occupation as a thief. Then I would be perfectly fine with him going to prison for 5 years. Human beings need character reform.
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Human beings need character reform.
That's the crux of the issue for me. Locking people in a cage and treating them like animals has proven to not reform character, in fact it often does quite the opposite. I'm just caught up on the idea of the punishment itself moreso than how often and accurately it is applied. It seems like a shortsighted thing "let's lock these people in a cage so we don't have to deal with them for awhile, and also so we feel pleasure at getting revenge on them." I'm sure I would feel differently if I'd lately been a target of crime, but at the moment the whole thing seems like a senseless waste of enormous amounts of money on top of being cruel and making society worse. I don't have any alternative to suggest either just vomiting out thoughts.
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On September 03 2020 03:44 Starlightsun wrote:That's the crux of the issue for me. Locking people in a cage and treating them like animals has proven to not reform character, in fact it often does quite the opposite. I'm just caught up on the idea of the punishment itself moreso than how often and accurately it is applied. It seems like a shortsighted thing "let's lock these people in a cage so we don't have to deal with them for awhile, and also so we feel pleasure at getting revenge on them." I'm sure I would feel differently if I'd lately been a target of crime, but at the moment the whole thing seems like a senseless waste of enormous amounts of money on top of being cruel and making society worse. I don't have any alternative to suggest either just vomiting out thoughts.
A relevant question is Treason. Why do you think Treasonous offenders are executed instead of punished in a more conventional fashion? The truth is that hard time is good for the soul.
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The truth is hard time is good for the soul
According to...?
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On September 04 2020 08:54 GreenHorizons wrote:According to...?
It is according to me. I am a Believer in Jesus Christ.
As for GreenHorizons, I support smoking Marijuana where it is legal, but I do not support abiding by your own opinion of what should be legal, and what should not.
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