The Privatization of Justice: It's Not Just Prisons Anymore

[AthenaAwakened]

When you guys want to get back to the actual topic of the thread, let me know.

 

[Jarhyn]

Gorpeschlorp matters. Plechtenect matters. Bleep bloop bleep matters. Special pleading. They are as human as we are. We can do the same things and get the same results.

Jarhyn - what was the Norwegian crime before implementation of its current criminal justice system? You're putting the cart before the horse.

No. I am putting the cart exactly where it belongs, because the cart is as much education, opportunity and social spending as it is what they do with the people who fuck up.

If you think there is a problem with Americans that makes us lust after the torture of our fellow human beings, you yourself have demonstrated a RABID propensity to this. As I said, you admitted yourself that you would murder someone if the state didn't agree to torture them for you. So, if it is genetic, you are part of the problem, and you yourself should know what to do with such problematic genes.

 

[Trausti]

Jarhyn - what was the Norwegian crime before implementation of its current criminal justice system? You're putting the cart before the horse.

No. I am putting the cart exactly where it belongs, because the cart is as much education, opportunity and social spending as it is what they do with the people who fuck up.

If you think there is a problem with Americans that makes us lust after the torture of our fellow human beings, you yourself have demonstrated a RABID propensity to this. As I said, you admitted yourself that you would murder someone if the state didn't agree to torture them for you. So, if it is genetic, you are part of the problem, and you yourself should know what to do with such problematic genes.

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When you guys want to get back to the actual topic of the thread, let me know.

Yes, we've sailed far off course. Apologies, Madam.

 

[Jarhyn]

When you guys want to get back to the actual topic of the thread, let me know.

The problem is, the thread asks whether it is appropriate to let people.compete for a contract to see who can make the most money torturing people. I see the problem in the initial assumption that torture is an appropriate response to any behavior in the first place, that it is ever appropriate to put people in cages not because of who they are (we would try to change or end who they are, explicitly, if that was the case) but because of a thing they did.

We went down a slippery slope a long time ago as a species giving in to our drive for revenge. Private punishment facilities are definitely further down the slope than publicly run punishment facilities, but both are still far past the banana peel of evil.