Not long ago, "murderers and child rapists should have to live with what they've done" was considered a perfectly reasonable defense of an abolitionist position on the death penalty. It's interesting to notice the new pushback against "maximum punishment" for even the worst crime https://twitter.com/Vanessa_ABee/status/1218019316454563840 …
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I don't have a firm personal position on the death penalty, but I suspect that the recent cultural shift has been toward perceiving *all* crime as a demonstration of "lack of privilege" or systemic injustice, and that's just clearly not always the case
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Honestly... I don't know if there are great social benefits to societal rage, but I honestly can't muster a lot of concern about the folks who want to see killers who kill for sexual gratification or money punished in the worst way
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I *am* genuinely concerned by people who think neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment w/o the possibility of parole should be on the table. Even if a serial child killer *can* be "rehabilitated," exactly how much risk are the most vulnerable families expected to bear?
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It never occurred to me that one day I might see blanket-case arguments against permanent incarceration, but I guess this is the fruit that intratribal signal gaming bears. "How woke am I? So woke that not even dead kids can slow *this* woke roll!"
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Prisons seem really clearly bad from all angles. They don't rehabilitate effectively, they do ruin lives, and even for the goal of "remove the criminal from society so they can't do harm" they're a really expensive way of doing that. They're also not Lindy!
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Ancient punishments that I know of included fines, banishment, corporal punishment, and execution. These all seem more humane than prison!
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I agree that there's a weird woke thing where some people can't ever admit that violent criminals did a bad thing and insist on changing the subject to the problems with Society.
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