(March 5, 2015 at 5:33 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: 1. Enslaving convicts to work creates a perverse economic incentive to incarcerate more, for any reason.
Hence, how our privatized prison system in America coupled with our financial lobbying that is so intertwined in how our democracy/oligarchy functions has resulted in the highest per capita prisoners of any country in the world.
On a related note, an argument against the death penalty that swayed me from hesitant-"for" to an "against" is the prospect of executing an innocent. If even one innocent person is executed, that is unacceptable. You can release an innocent person from jail. You can't give them their lost time back but you can at least give them the rest of their life back. You can't bring back anyone from the grave.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
