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by Loic 869 days ago
You are losing your freedom of movement, not your rights, no?
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Prisoners lose most of their rights. They have no privacy rights, they can be searched at any time without a warrant, they often don't get to vote, they don't get to own weapons, they don't have freedom of association, they don't get to choose their style of dress.
Nope you lose a lot of your rights as well. I don't know about European prisons, though. When you break the social contract, there are consequences.
I've never seen the social contract, let alone signed it. I suppose I used to sort of believe that it existed, but that belief, like so many others I once held, has not survived the past decade or so. Certainly I believe in consequences, but they seem little better than random, though they quite rarely touch the wealthy/connected.