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[–] -2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Innocent people dying of old age in prison is also irreversible and way fucking crueler.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You're not wrong, but at least there's a chance that they'll be released, and with therapy they might even have a normal life again some day. If you kill someone, they're dead. Nothing you can do about it beyond maybe putting an "Oops, our bad, sorry about that" plaque on their headstone.

    I will also say that prisons should not be cruel. The role of prisons should be rehabilitation, protection of society from those who can't be rehabilitated, and lastly (and for once actually least importantly) punishment.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The rehabilitation line is a lie people tell themselves to feel better about being ok with extreme cruelty

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    there are other countries who have actually worked successfully at rehabilitation rather than the US-based system of 'revenge as justice'.

    lumping everyone in line with the revenge types is an ignorant, immature stance.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    i mean... abolish prisons too? Yes... I think yess :)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes but why just when the fate of billionaires is on the line?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I just support prison abolition in general, especially here in the US where I am. The shear number of poor, poc, indigenous, and mentally ill people who get funneled into the prison system here is a travesty and just pointless cruelty. TBH i dont give a fuck about one billionaire as long as the money is taken back and she loses all her power. Though I also do not support the death penalty so this headline doesn't make me feel super comfortable.

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