Biden Losing It

[bennyboy]

If they are innocent, the problem isn't their voting rights in prison.  It's that they are in prison at all.

I advocate for the release, with money earmarked for low-interest loans, training and so on, of the majority of prisoners-- ESPECIALLY those who were imprisoned on the 3-strike rule for things that are no longer serious crimes, like possession of marijuana.

The problem is that they are in prison at all? Well, we're never going to get to a place where there are no innocent people in prison, so that's a moot point. The same goes for the death penalty. Even if one innocent is killed on death row, that's one too many, which is why there can be no death penalty.

It sucks to be the victim of injustice, but that's not necessarily a reason not to imprison anyone or even to kill them for very serious crimes.  The government should have this burden-- to match the punishment to the crime, but to accept increasing responsibility of due diligence for the biggest punishments.  That's why death row inmates are there sooooo long, and there are sooo many appeals and so on.

Civilians are much less careful than this, in ways that are so likely to cause injury or death that I think negligence should receive almost the same punishment.  For example, the outcome of driving while using a phone is SO likely to cause harm, that being caught doing so should lead to a prison sentence of several years.  Every few years, some asshole celebrity dies in a sports-car crash, and everyone mourns him.  Fuck that-- we should line up to take turns pissing on his grave because his willingness to launch a Lamborghini into the air for excitement was a threat to us all.

To me it's curious that when a government makes a mistake involving injustice, the world is ending.  But every day, my precious family walk out into a society filled by fuckwits.  I let 300 million other people roll the dice for me-- where a losing roll ends up with something so horrific happening to my family that it will end my happiness in an instant and forever.

Yeah, being wrongly imprisoned for murder SUCKS.  But there were 16,000 homicides in the US-- and it's better to lock up a few people wrongly than to let 16,000 murderous fuckwits roam free.

Being wrongly imprisoned for rape SUCKS.  But there were 85,000 rapes reported in 2010-- and it's better to get a few cases wrong than to let 85,000 rapist fuckwits roam free.

Remember that for every story that runs about a wrongful imprisonment, there are many thousands of very hard, dangerous men behind bars not raping you or killing you for your jewlry for a couple doses of Fentanyl. Cry for their "human right to vote" when they care about your rights to safety or liberty.