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Sure. The US needs to prolong their racist and anti-communist policies, that's why they came with their current prison system afterall. Nixon improved the system to ensure better voter turnout for his kind (20% less democrates votes and get blacks from the streets), Clinton improved the system for more cheap slave labour (which worked great for centuries to make the US the greatest country of all) and helped private…
The right-wing states want higher crime?
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Yes and No, I'd sooner my taxes pay to keep someone away from society who needs to be than pay to execute them even if it costs more, I'd sooner living that society even if it costs more. Fortunately where I am the death penalty is a settled issue.
Honest question, why is putting someone in a box for the rest of their life more morally acceptable than killing them? I personally find life imprisonment to be far more horrifying than death. I understand the concerns around the death penalty, namely the possibility of a wrongful conviction with the inability to appeal once the sentence is carried out. But just comparing the punishments, why is one morally better th…
I do think there is an argument for offering someone who has a life/no parole sentence Euthanasia but that would be a massive can of worms to open.
There's a very interesting thought experiment devised by the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smitg and outlined at the end of the excellent book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. Quoting from the book; “Let me ask you three questions,” he said. “And then you’ll see it my way. Question One: What’s the worst thing that you have ever done to someone? It’s okay. You don’t have to confess it out loud. Que…
There's a very interesting thought experiment devised by the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smitg and outlined at the end of the excellent book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. Quoting from the book; “Let me ask you three questions,” he said. “And then you’ll see it my way. Question One: What’s the worst thing that you have ever done to someone? It’s okay. You don’t have to confess it out loud. Que…
It's only deep if you want it to be deep. In my opinion, it's as "deep" as any other meaningless question. As one in the title, by the way. Because the very assumption that legal system exists to help some commoner — you — seems absurd to me. It's not you who puts people in jail. It's not you who has the guns and manpower to maintain the existing regime and rules. It's not even you, who "feeds" those who have guns an…
- Government isn't about morality.
- Really? What is it about?
- Stability! Keeping things going. Preventing anarchy. Stopping society from
falling to bits. Still being here tomorrow.
- What for?
- I beg your pardon?
- What is the ultimate purpose of government, if it isn't for doing good?
- Minister, government isn't about good and evil it's only about order, or chaos.
There's a very interesting thought experiment devised by the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smitg and outlined at the end of the excellent book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. Quoting from the book; “Let me ask you three questions,” he said. “And then you’ll see it my way. Question One: What’s the worst thing that you have ever done to someone? It’s okay. You don’t have to confess it out loud. Que…
Our legal system doesn't push "harm" per se, but rather harm caused unjustly[1]. E.g. it harms me a company raises the price of a product that happens to be in demand ("price gouging") but that company has every right to do so as it owns the product. One way we can reconcile the utilitarian notion of harm, with the property rights/natural rights approach is through economic theory. The so called "welfare theorems" of…
Actually, 30+ US states have laws making "price gouging" illegal, though the definition isn't just that the product is in demand, but that there is also a state of emergency fueling that demand.