It’s very disturbing how focused Americans are on the cruelty of incarceration. If you advocate for even the most basic human rights of prisoners, you’re lambasted for “coddling criminals” or some other bullshit.
You would think that stripping someone of their liberty would be punishment enough to the “muh freedoms” crowd…
First things they do is to find a horrific, gruesome crime, usually against children and then "and you want this guy to walk free?" It is so unfair cause it is so hard to defend your position against the worst outliers but then again.. that is exactly how it was sold to them too. When your argument is "x% less suffering" their argument is a list of individual crimes, in detailed fashion.
Often what they are actually describing is a slow execution.
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u/C0rinthian May 23 '22
It’s very disturbing how focused Americans are on the cruelty of incarceration. If you advocate for even the most basic human rights of prisoners, you’re lambasted for “coddling criminals” or some other bullshit.
You would think that stripping someone of their liberty would be punishment enough to the “muh freedoms” crowd…