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"Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"

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"Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"
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RE: "Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"
February 12, 2021 at 8:52 am
(February 11, 2021 at 8:16 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:
(February 11, 2021 at 10:49 am)Eleven Wrote: Prison is an extension of reality, punishment in this lifetime when there is zero guarantee that anything exists after death.

Welcome back, Eleven!

I'm not a big fan of punishment for its own sake.  Protection of society has more of a moral argument.  Deterrence is valid, but problematic, as why should one person suffer so you can deter another?

But how could prisons protect the society? They are a place from which violent people return with even more psychological problems. I can see how death penalty or gun control could (not to say they do) protect the society, but I fail to see how prisons could.
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RE: "Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?" - by FlatAssembler - February 12, 2021 at 8:52 am

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