Eh. I don't think it's that batshit. In a perfect world, in my perfect scenario, I live in a society where people commit fucked up crimes and my response to that is an eye for an eye. Which if you think about it, our whole American values system is built on 10 commandments, which was taken from an ancient Sumerian 3,400-5000 year old tablet which decreed the laws and punishments for a big walled town from that era.
So an eye for an eye and imprisoning someone are both responses to a thing we've been doing since BC times. Digressing, this is eye for an eye justice in my view of a perfect society would go unchallenged except from people like you, who some how think we have to be more humane and less barbaric than the people who wish to oppress us. To that I say, build the private prison you are so against, and lock them up until they have a change of heart since you sound sure that human beings who rape and murder are capable of such things. They'll be fit one day, but not for the next 20 years? Maybe how young their rape victim is, or how old their murder victim was when they were killed should be the perpetrators punishment for how many years they stay in your prison. You could ignore all of that but from someone who has been in these type of facilities I think you owe me the answer to the question of, do you think human beings are meant to live in cages? If they did such an inhuman act to deserve such a cage, why not just kill them? With our society how it is currently, I actually don't believe the death penalty does anything for social justice. Although in this other world, you would be trying to imprison the people I would be fine with sending to death. Can you tell me why it's okay to imprison pedos/rapists and murderers but not jaywalkers, weed smokers, and double dribblers? I think theres only a few things in this world derserved of death and in our world that's snitching no matter what for, and in this no-prison eye for eye world I've constructed, that has to include the things that you don't think are all that bad, or crimes worth imprisoning someone for. I say imprison them yourself in your basement to get you to think. Sure we have the structure to house these people, and keep them alive until they die; is that worse or better than just killing them outright? Of course there's always the hope of rehabilitation and what not but I'm trying to get you to imagine a world where the infrastructure wasn't built to house these criminals unless you were to do it yourself. Would you still be so eager to say these guys have a life worth saving? If they were living in your own basement? I just want to know on a deep level what your reasoning for thinking this way if you'd still house em' in your home and feed them your table scraps. I'm of the opinion it's probably more humane to kill them outright, because we as human beings feel the range of emotions and process intelectual reasonings which should be self evident in the fact that no human should be in a cage despite what they did.
, or a cop who used his power, badge, and authority to be judge, jury and executioner? Don't you think they're getting a little bit of what they deserve? I'm sure the family of victims are happy when the aggressor gets a little extra suffering while in prison. I don't speak for everyone, maybe people ascend past that and choose indifference about what happens to the one who took their loved one away from them; because of how they process this trauma or loss. In a very technical manner, I am happy when I hear about people like Chauvin getting stabbed behind the walls, I don't know why it makes me happy, but I guess for the same reasons it makes people happy that he was convicted on all charges. The facts remain, these things happen in the system we have for these convicted and damned criminals.
