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Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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Can prisoners have books? Can't they have computers? Why?

They can and do have books, TVs and offline computers.

The article is just whining by someone who tried to escape his prison sentence for two years and after getting caught (and then bragging about destroying evidence) is shocked that the system treats him as not being very trustworthy.

Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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I'm surprised a Swedish prison doesn't provide a vegan diet. Prisons in California provide a number of different diets, although I'm not sure about vegan. It's a large expense for them.

But that said, I think there are times to give up on your vegan diet having to do with the culture that you find yourself immersed in. This has nothing to do with prisons, but if you're traveling in a culture where veganism is unheard of you should be a good guest and not push your beliefs on them, making your hosts uncomfortable. Just eat the meat.

In the West veganism is a luxury. A fetish for the rich and it is classist. Even outside of the West eggs and animal fat (not meat) are an important diet of many poor people.

Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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post #3
post #2

Can prisoners have books? Can't they have computers? Why?

They can and do have books, TVs and offline computers. The article is just whining by someone who tried to escape his prison sentence for two years and after getting caught (and then bragging about destroying evidence) is shocked that the system treats him as not being very trustworthy.

The comment is just derision by someone who respects the authority of conventional power and is unsympathetic to someone having a fundamentally different but consistent stance.

;)

Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can and do have books, TVs and offline computers. The article is just whining by someone who tried to escape his prison sentence for two years and after getting caught (and then bragging about destroying evidence) is shocked that the system treats him as not being very trustworthy.

The comment is just derision by someone who respects the authority of conventional power and is unsympathetic to someone having a fundamentally different but consistent stance. ;)

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Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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post #5

I'm surprised a Swedish prison doesn't provide a vegan diet. Prisons in California provide a number of different diets, although I'm not sure about vegan. It's a large expense for them. But that said, I think there are times to give up on your vegan diet having to do with the culture that you find yourself immersed in. This has nothing to do with prisons, but if you're traveling in a culture where veganism is unheard…

People in the third world don't eat that much meat because meat is expensive.

Now in the west, eating only plants is an expensive luxury.

Re: Peter Sunde: 'In prison, you become brain-dead'

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post #5

I'm surprised a Swedish prison doesn't provide a vegan diet. Prisons in California provide a number of different diets, although I'm not sure about vegan. It's a large expense for them. But that said, I think there are times to give up on your vegan diet having to do with the culture that you find yourself immersed in. This has nothing to do with prisons, but if you're traveling in a culture where veganism is unheard…

Morals and ethics, staying true to one's values, that's worth making sacrifices for. I take it from your comment you don't understand that.
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