• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    8 hours ago

    And China is enslaving people currently.

    I mean, the post is about the UK and we’re bringing up other countries for no reason, right?

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        We made it constitutionally protected via the 13th Ammendment. It’s bullshit, and one of the many reasons, IMO, why minorities (especially black people) are still disproportionately targeted by law enforcement.

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        Our system is fucked up, but at the same time who and why is feeding someone for a lifetime scott-free? All prisons have labor as a backbone besides, was it Switzerland or Norway?

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          The problem with forcing prisoners to fund their own punishment is that it makes incarceration easier. If you are not even willing to pay the full expenses of taking away someone’s freedom, how can I believe that you have fully taken into account the full weight of taking away someone’s freedom before doing it? And if you take it a step farther, and actually turn profit from said imprisonment - I cannot trust your claims that it’s justified.

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              That’s the problem. The state shouldn’t have a profit motive when it comes to incarcerating humans.

              In fact, prisons being expensive is a very good motive to find better ways of handling rehabilitation than locking people in cages.

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      Do you have any sources on the China part? Not trying to be a gotcha-Andy, genuinely curious because most western media fucking blows.