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The future of loneliness

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Re: The future of loneliness

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Criminals in America sound like they're treated as a de-facto permanent underclass. Less rights (no voting, custody, criminal suspicion, etc), less privacy (sex offender registry) and less opportunity with respect to job applications (job discrimination based on criminal record is legal?). And then they're released back into the general population, expected to be upstanding, rehabilitated citizens that want to (and c…

You think sex offenders shouldn't be on a register?

What makes them different from murderers, robbers?

All I was saying is that these individuals are now part of a permanent underclass. This after they've supposedly "paid" their debt to society by serving their allotted jail sentence.

Whether there should be a registry for sex offenders, or anything else. That's a really big, and complicated problem, though.

Re: The future of loneliness

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I enjoyed this article until they started focusing on "selfies" and social media. Loneliness and human interaction over the internet is a very interesting subject but I feel like the author has only used facebook and instagram. There is no reason to limit this topic to communication platforms built upon exposing your own personal life and connection that with you communication. I think that communication over IRC, blogs, reddit, comments like this and chans are more "pure" in a way and more interesting.
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