Of course I'm not saying anybody deserves special treatment, but it seems sort of absurd to say that because nobody gets special treatment, we should all put up with pointless bullshit. I'm more for, you know, not having anybody have to do that. If we don't start with one person, with our own lives and our own decisions, then we won't start anywhere. We aren't going to make any jumps or remake any systems. The individual decisions we make are the only way things will change.
It's the only justifiable reason I can think of. Prison doesn't teach people a lesson. It doesn't make them 'pay their debts'. I don't believe in eye for an eye or making people pay for crimes with suffering. Teaching, I believe in. "Justice," I don't.
I don't think Europe's much better either. I'm sure the cultural/economic phenomenon I'm thinking of affects the First World generally, although the U.S. plays a particular sort of role in it....way to be vague.
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Of course I'm not saying anybody deserves special treatment, but it seems sort of absurd to say that because nobody gets special treatment, we should all put up with pointless bullshit. I'm more for, you know, not having anybody have to do that. If we don't start with one person, with our own lives and our own decisions, then we won't start anywhere. We aren't going to make any jumps or remake any systems. The individual decisions we make are the only way things will change.
It's the only justifiable reason I can think of. Prison doesn't teach people a lesson. It doesn't make them 'pay their debts'. I don't believe in eye for an eye or making people pay for crimes with suffering. Teaching, I believe in. "Justice," I don't.
I don't think Europe's much better either. I'm sure the cultural/economic phenomenon I'm thinking of affects the First World generally, although the U.S. plays a particular sort of role in it....way to be vague.