I think the carceral system is broken, and I think that imprisonment is an incomplete/inadequate way to address crime. I’m sure there are plenty of good discussions about alternatives are taking place, just not on fucking HN.
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Yeah, our society favouring punishment over reparations is so sick and absurd and all we get to enjoy are those … bitter crumbs of schadenfreude … Not that it will stop me cheering when bad things happen to bad (powerful) people but wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society that’d let us be magnanimous.
100%. I think that’s part of the human condition- in the absence of justice, vengeance is a hollow substitute. (It’s also the heart of good batman interpretations imo.)
P.S. while I’m talking about DC- it’s not cool to like optimistic superman stories over the dark, evil superman stories (including things like the boys, invincible, irredeemable etc.), but I do anyway. To me and many others, superman is a blatant metaphor for a global superpower/the US. Evil supermen stories are reflections of our current reality. Good supermen stories are ones of hope.
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Thanks for the rec!
Tough on crime, but only towards companies. Many enterprises deserve a corporate death sentence. Company dissolved, assets seized and placed in an unemployment insurance fund to be dealt out to the employees who aren’t culpable for the corporation’s crimes.
I don’t need SBF sitting in a jail for decades, I want him to get dunked on just hard enough to make him regret scamming all those people and then never work in finance ever again.
Excellent, well-informed take here from the replies:
In the case of drugs, no one really goes to jail fo doing drugs, only selling them.
Come for the libertarian solution to crime, stay for the dude who says lead being toxic is an elite plot.
God this whole discussion, utilitarianism is a disease.
