[hnracer]

> The societal failings like prisons existing in the first place?

Prisons existing is not a societal failure. You can't have a society with 330 million people and not have at least 1 murderer who is relentlessly violent, who needs to be physically confined to protect everyone around them. As soon as you have 1 individual like that (which is almost guaranteed by the law of large numbers irrespective of how good that society is), you've already agreed that some kind of prison (whether or not you label it as such) is necessary.

Every large country has some kind of supermax prison, including Scandinavian countries, because it's a simple reality that individuals like the above exist in small numbers.

[aaomidi]

We're not talking about 1 individual though. The US has the highest prisoner per capita in countries that report this stat.

How many of these people are the Dexter type murderer?

[hnracer]

All I was disputing was the original statement that prisons existing = societal failing.