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by gugagore 2391 days ago
I am not sure about your impression. Maybe there are some people against all enforcement, but most people think there should be some balance between locking a person up for crimes, and treating a person humanely, like you said.

Society is us, and some of us have opinions about what we should look like. The critics are just that. They probably understand that in our society, there's an obligation to make the most money. But they also feel other moral obligations.

The critics and the not-critics generate this tension, and that can help us collectively figure out what we should look like.

The point being, shareholder obligation, and the belief in sovereignty and geo-political borders are only some pieces of what is ultimately a very deep question of who we, as a society, want to be. And I hope you appreciate that some critics, even the most extreme ones, are trying to answer that question.