(August 5, 2017 at 9:03 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 4, 2017 at 12:19 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It was the conviction of Quakers that changed our thinking about prison, from a place of punishment to forced penitence. That is where the word penitentiary came from.
Yet, you're not a Quaker yourself. What's the deal with people of other denominations taking credit for the decency and activism of Quakers yet not wanting to be Quakers?
The assumption that the behavior you get from people who are raised in or gravitate toward being a Quaker is what we can expect from herding everyone to do the same is highly questionable.