[TriinT]

Prisoners live off the state. They are, by definition, parasites. Everything else is semantics.

[lesbianmonad]

The writing off mass injustice and suffering as 'semantics' notwithstanding, you might enjoy learning that 'parasite' described those in Greek and Roman society who earned their daily meals by entertaining and flattering at the dinner tables of the rich

Hopefully you appreciate the irony in the word now describing those forced to live in incarceration, to satisfy a societal elite with a fetish for moralizing and punishment

[TriinT]

Are your views U.S.-centric?