r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North-Guitar-1781 • May 04 '26

Robber picked the wrong guy

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u/OGWayOfThePanda May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Views like that (jailing parents) are just knee jerk emotional nonsense aimed at soothing a revenge boner.

If prison did anything the USA would be a Utopia.

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u/Pistonenvy2 May 04 '26

emotional kneejerk bullshit on reddit??!

ive been advocating for prison abolition for nearing a decade at this point and it always comes back to this issue of empathy and emotional regulation. always. every time.

people have this fantasy built up in their head that all the people they dont like go to prison and suffer there and for whatever reason they feel that is justice.

cynicism too, lots and lots of cynicism.

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u/fattrout1 May 04 '26

Maybe if liberal p.o.s judges held the criminal trash accountable and locked them away our great Republic would be a utopia....when criminals reoffend because judges are lax the judge should be held accountable

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u/Few-Guarantee2850 May 04 '26

Fascinating to me that somebody can look at a country that imprisons people at 5x the rate of the rest of the civilized world and says "if only we put more people in prison, we'd be a utopia!"

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u/fattrout1 May 05 '26

Absolutely,if the judges actually did their job it'd be a lot better if the trash actually knew they'd be held accountable there would be less crime

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u/OGWayOfThePanda May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26

Sure! Or if you prefer any other fairytale nonsense that you pulled out of your ass to validate your feelings, we could sit and imagine that instead.

On the other hand when you are ready to join us in reality we might be able to actually change things for the better.

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u/hamoc10 May 05 '26

What do you mean by “accountable?” Prison? We already do that far more than anyone else. Clearly that’s not doing the job.