I think the carceral system is broken, and I think that imprisonment is an incomplete/inadequate way to address crime. I’m sure there are plenty of good discussions about alternatives are taking place, just not on fucking HN.
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Yeah, our society favouring punishment over reparations is so sick and absurd and all we get to enjoy are those … bitter crumbs of schadenfreude … Not that it will stop me cheering when bad things happen to bad (powerful) people but wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society that’d let us be magnanimous.
Excellent, well-informed take here from the replies:
In the case of drugs, no one really goes to jail fo doing drugs, only selling them.
Come for the libertarian solution to crime, stay for the dude who says lead being toxic is an elite plot.
God this whole discussion, utilitarianism is a disease.
