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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Nov 2020

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Liam Bright

    Eh, I think that there's no moral basis for retribution. Reparation is nice, but criminals usually don't generate any utility. Rehabilitation is mostly impossible. Incapacitation and deterrence are the only ones that work, and I strongly prefer the former, for all crimes.https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1332608442071191552 …

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    Liam Bright @lastpositivist
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    Yeah - again and again it comes out that people who profess to believe in anti-retributionist principles of justice only do this for things they don't really think are bad.
    11:37 AM - 28 Nov 2020
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      1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 28 Nov 2020

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cary Bleasdale

        2/ Prison incapacitates, and maybe deters. Corporal punishment deters without incapacitation. I prefer exile, with the death penalty for returning without permission.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1332775067797819394 …

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        Cary Bleasdale @Cary_Bleasdale
        Replying to @MorlockP
        Tbh, I have a moral horror of prison as a concept, and think for most things a cat o nine tails is the solution. The royal navy kicked ass with the sweepings of inland jails by touching em up with the cat when they got out of line
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      1. AmericanNomad‏ @NellsTacos 28 Nov 2020
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        Plays well in fiction, but of little use irl

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      2. vector (fish angel)‏ @VectorOfBasis 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Why do you prefer incapacitation over deterrence?

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      3. John Greer‏ @JohnCGreer 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @VectorOfBasis @MorlockP

        I wonder if there's a good discussion somewhere on how well deterrence works in different circumstances. Seems like it works terribly in some and well in others.

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      1. liamtheobscure‏ @liamtheobscure 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        In some of Nivens books criminals paid reparations with their organs.

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      1. Cary Bleasdale‏ @Cary_Bleasdale 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        This is my "why doesn't Batman just give his enemies the Christopher Reeves treatment" argument but for society

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      1. Cary Bleasdale‏ @Cary_Bleasdale 28 Nov 2020
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        Tbh, I have a moral horror of prison as a concept, and think for most things a cat o nine tails is the solution. The royal navy kicked ass with the sweepings of inland jails by touching em up with the cat when they got out of line

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      2. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @MorlockP

        I think it is probably a mistake to see retribution & mercy as separate axes to deterrence/incapacitation & rehabilitation. They are the same things, seen from a different angle.

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      3. Ben Liddicott‏ @BenLiddicott 28 Nov 2020
        Replying to @BenLiddicott @MorlockP

        Just retribution - deprive the criminal of any benefit from the crime, and make him suffer as he made others suffer - provides deterrence. But it has a stopping point, do not punish to an extent beyond the harm caused. This is more humane than a pure "deterrence"

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