RE: Prison as punishment
November 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2016 at 2:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd murder someone who hurt my daughters. Just flat out murder them, and probably anyone else who happened to be there to witness it and didn't help her. I'll leave that here as a confession to a crime I may one day commit just to make it easier on authorities. If the kid who hurt one of my daughters goes missing or winds up dead, along with all of his douchebag friends. I did it. I totally did it, and I'm probably proud to have done it...so there goes my contrite nature.
Thing is, that means I need to be in a cell too. So while I understand that urge, if that urge is at play, the desire for catharsis...for retribution, it's hard to validate it as okay whether I'm the one with the hammer or the state is swinging it for me. Still, we're talking about convicts here, prisoners, invisibles. It's easy not to notice or care...what we might be strongly against in some other human beings case...to some extent we have already dehumanized the invisibles, and so the normal rules we might comport ourselves to no longer apply.
Thing is, that means I need to be in a cell too. So while I understand that urge, if that urge is at play, the desire for catharsis...for retribution, it's hard to validate it as okay whether I'm the one with the hammer or the state is swinging it for me. Still, we're talking about convicts here, prisoners, invisibles. It's easy not to notice or care...what we might be strongly against in some other human beings case...to some extent we have already dehumanized the invisibles, and so the normal rules we might comport ourselves to no longer apply.
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