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by lioeters
2603 days ago
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My goodness, have you ever had a family member, relative, friend or known anyone who has gone to prison? The way you describe the goal of prison sounds worse than slavery, worse than training dogs. These are human beings, and I consider it utterly uncivilized and inhumane that we would have an institution designed to "be like hell". It's also a typically Christian approach (I mean the church, not the original love commune nor the homeless man who taught to love each other as one self) - to play God, to judge, to create hell and condemn someone to it. Many of these lost souls are already in hell, of a broken society, a broken home. Putting them in a deeper circle of hell is not any kind of a solution. For the person being punished, it's just a continuation of the same shit way they've been treated. How can we expect any rehabilitation, any healing to take place in a dungeon? It just reminds me that we're still in the Dark Ages, underneath our veneer of "civilization". |
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Though it's only more recently that keeping people in prison for significant lengths of time has been commonplace, or thought of as a way of punishing/rehabilitating.
Present day is darker in some ways than the so-called Dark Ages.