@HeerJeet Civil disobedience means being willing to do the time in order to make the moral point. #LetterFromTheBirminghamJail, for example.
@ceolaf No, prisons are terrible places & should be reserved for violent criminals who are a threat to other people.
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@HeerJeet Do you think that all prisons are the same? Maximum and minimum security prisons? All the same terribleness? -
@ceolaf Of course some prisons worse than others. But experience of imprisonment is usually soul-damaging. Has to be used sparingly. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Why is the answer to stop sending these folks to prison rather than fixing some part of the prison system. -
@ceolaf We're getting far afield from Swartz case. But briefly, US imprisons more people per capita than anywhere else. That's not good. - Show replies
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