(July 13, 2023 at 5:53 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(July 12, 2023 at 7:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why is it irrational to believe that prisons are a good thing? If one can present rational reasons for them (such as segregating dangerous individuals from the rest of society), it's not an irrationality. Therefore, politicians would not need to be systemically irrational for prisons to exist.
Boru
Prisons are places from which mentally ill people return even more dangerous than when they entered them.
Are you implying that all mentally ill people, at least the ones who run afoul of the law, are dangerous?
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