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

So if I decide that I am running late for work, speed and endanger other individuals its actually societies fault that I was late to work?

Yes, it is. Because society has failed in so many years to teach you reasons to understand that these actions are foolish, or in producing a situation where there is no option but to speed or to get to work late. It is equal.part the fault of parents who did not instill proper education as to how to get up in the morning, and in a natural world in which sometimes people.just forget to do things or are tempted insurmountably by biology to hit the snooze button too many times; by whatever course of events, a bad situation arose, and the solution to this is to produce ta few outcomes, all equally important: to educate you as to the reasons why speeding is illegal and I still in you an understanding of those reasons so you will find yourself not doing it, and to address whatever failures you have in wrangling your time properly. The bill for these corrective measures ought rest squarely on the shoulders of the society which failed to produce an adult who does not respect others enough to drive at a safe speed.

People do understand their acts, but if that don't get punished for those acts then there is no problem. If you reward bad behavior. You got your wish with that guy who raped a woman on campus and the judge said we couldn't take away his college for it. So maybe government should provide males with prostitutes so we won't have to rape.
 
It's both a detterent and punishment for committing a wrong act. You are rewarding bad behavior. If I want to become President I don't go out and shoot him or her. If I want to be a bank teller I don't go out and rob a bank.

Do you understand how foolish this whole mess of your post is? Do you even know WHY people rob banks or kill presidents?

Read my post again, trying for comprehension this time. You can't cure cancer by punishing people who get cancer. You don't cure HIV by punishing those people who get HIV. You don't cure criminal ideation by punishing people who have criminal ideation. You cure cancer by cutting out the cancer and administering medicine. You 'cure' HIV by training people how to use condoms and by making PrEP available, and by giving medication. You cure criminal ideation by removing the situations that drive people to become criminals.

Few people WANT to be criminals. Even most of the minority that want that life are introduced to it in the first place by perceived necessity. This necessity will be present no matter how much of a punishment is present, and the *thrill* of being a criminal is increased by such a prospect of punishment.

Instead of punishing people for robbing banks we should be eliminating the benefit of the series of choices that lead to and include robbing banks. If you have food on your table, recreational choices that don't suck, and a roof over your head, skills to do a task people will praise you for, and a place to apply those skills, then robbing banks would, even to most (ex) bank robbers, look like an exercise in foolishness. If it does NOT look like an exercise in foolishness, if they 'break bad' merely to feel 'alive' then no amount of punishment will keep them from continuing to consume that drug. It is an addiction that needs to be treated or in the most concerning cases, interceded on with segration.

Plenty of people choose the criminal lifestyle because they want the immediate reward crime brings rather than the hard work legal means bring.
 
Yes, it is. Because society has failed in so many years to teach you reasons to understand that these actions are foolish, or in producing a situation where there is no option but to speed or to get to work late. It is equal.part the fault of parents who did not instill proper education as to how to get up in the morning, and in a natural world in which sometimes people.just forget to do things or are tempted insurmountably by biology to hit the snooze button too many times; by whatever course of events, a bad situation arose, and the solution to this is to produce ta few outcomes, all equally important: to educate you as to the reasons why speeding is illegal and I still in you an understanding of those reasons so you will find yourself not doing it, and to address whatever failures you have in wrangling your time properly. The bill for these corrective measures ought rest squarely on the shoulders of the society which failed to produce an adult who does not respect others enough to drive at a safe speed.

People do understand their acts, but if that don't get punished for those acts then there is no problem. If you reward bad behavior. You got your wish with that guy who raped a woman on campus and the judge said we couldn't take away his college for it. So maybe government should provide males with prostitutes so we won't have to rape.

I agree that he shouldn't be barred from attending college, or prevented from getting a job in his chosen field. The caveat to that is that society just simply cannot afford to let such a person go freely among us, at least not until whatever drives him to rape rather than have real relationships is resolved. If his propensity to rape cannot be resolved, then it is our duty to ourselves and the 20 some years of work that we spent to produce a human being to give him the opportunity to finish his education in an environment where he cannot or will not rape people. If such a situation is unacceptable to him, then he can either choose to kill himself, and society takes the loss, or he does his best to make do in his situation, and we all do our best to make this unfortunate situation suck as little for them as possible. They didn't ask to be created, and they didn't ask to be shaped into a rapist. At any rate it is not rewarding his rape to let him continue to be a normal person, especially if he proves capable of it.

You continue trying to strawman my position; I do not suggest that we allow people to commit crimes, nor that we reward their commission.

This means that if someone comes to the police and says 'please, I think I might rape someone if left free' then they are just as deserving of the treatment and segregation as the person who has actually raped.

Eventually we will figure out what dysfunction of nurture, genetics, and inebriation that leads to the persistence of rapeist ideation and we'll be able to repair that damage. Or conversely we might figure out some manner of position in society for a rapist which does not lead to unwanted outcomes.

At any rate, your ridiculous straw man keeps failing. Please stop making such flaccid straw man arguments.
 
People do understand their acts, but if that don't get punished for those acts then there is no problem. If you reward bad behavior. You got your wish with that guy who raped a woman on campus and the judge said we couldn't take away his college for it. So maybe government should provide males with prostitutes so we won't have to rape.

I agree that he shouldn't be barred from attending college, or prevented from getting a job in his chosen field. The caveat to that is that society just simply cannot afford to let such a person go freely among us, at least not until whatever drives him to rape rather than have real relationships is resolved. If his propensity to rape cannot be resolved, then it is our duty to ourselves and the 20 some years of work that we spent to produce a human being to give him the opportunity to finish his education in an environment where he cannot or will not rape people. If such a situation is unacceptable to him, then he can either choose to kill himself, and society takes the loss, or he does his best to make do in his situation, and we all do our best to make this unfortunate situation suck as little for them as possible. They didn't ask to be created, and they didn't ask to be shaped into a rapist. At any rate it is not rewarding his rape to let him continue to be a normal person, especially if he proves capable of it.

You continue trying to strawman my position; I do not suggest that we allow people to commit crimes, nor that we reward their commission.

This means that if someone comes to the police and says 'please, I think I might rape someone if left free' then they are just as deserving of the treatment and segregation as the person who has actually raped.

Eventually we will figure out what dysfunction of nurture, genetics, and inebriation that leads to the persistence of rapeist ideation and we'll be able to repair that damage. Or conversely we might figure out some manner of position in society for a rapist which does not lead to unwanted outcomes.

At any rate, your ridiculous straw man keeps failing. Please stop making such flaccid straw man arguments.

At least in this case you weren't rewarding the bad behavior, just not punishing it. So instead of going to jail for rapping a woman he has no punishment for it so in general there is no problem with a guy raping a woman.
 
At least in this case you weren't rewarding the bad behavior, just not punishing it. So instead of going to jail for rapping a woman he has no punishment for it so in general there is no problem with a guy raping a woman.

No, he'd strap the guy to a barrel and have birds peck his balls off. It just wouldn't be a punishment.
 
Do you understand how foolish this whole mess of your post is? Do you even know WHY people rob banks or kill presidents?

Read my post again, trying for comprehension this time. You can't cure cancer by punishing people who get cancer. You don't cure HIV by punishing those people who get HIV. You don't cure criminal ideation by punishing people who have criminal ideation. You cure cancer by cutting out the cancer and administering medicine. You 'cure' HIV by training people how to use condoms and by making PrEP available, and by giving medication. You cure criminal ideation by removing the situations that drive people to become criminals.

Few people WANT to be criminals. Even most of the minority that want that life are introduced to it in the first place by perceived necessity. This necessity will be present no matter how much of a punishment is present, and the *thrill* of being a criminal is increased by such a prospect of punishment.

Instead of punishing people for robbing banks we should be eliminating the benefit of the series of choices that lead to and include robbing banks. If you have food on your table, recreational choices that don't suck, and a roof over your head, skills to do a task people will praise you for, and a place to apply those skills, then robbing banks would, even to most (ex) bank robbers, look like an exercise in foolishness. If it does NOT look like an exercise in foolishness, if they 'break bad' merely to feel 'alive' then no amount of punishment will keep them from continuing to consume that drug. It is an addiction that needs to be treated or in the most concerning cases, interceded on with segration.

Plenty of people choose the criminal lifestyle because they want the immediate reward crime brings rather than the hard work legal means bring.

Apparently you've never been in that position.

I live in a place surrounded by people for whom no amount of hard legal work would allow ends to meet, assuming such work is even available.

As it is, selling drugs is really hard work. While the margins are high, the time investment is equally high, and there are the inevitable problems associated with doing business outside of normal society. I see drug dealers every day. I overhear their conversations and problems. I've had drug dealing friends, and I've even dealt drugs myself a few times.

The people capable of choosing to deal drugs who would do so for immediate rewards are as rare as the people who could choose being a CEO or executive for the immediate rewards those fields can bring. They are just as born into their positions as anyone else.

Let's take for example 'Raul'. Raul can't afford college, and his grades weren't good enough to get any financial aid outside a Pell Grant. This means that while higher education is paid for, food and lodging isn't. He needs a job. But nobody will hire him. His language skills aren't great and all his life, he has picked up cultural mannerisms which people not from that culture find distasteful. But he knows that the guy he gets his weed from, and the guy his deadbeat crackhead father got crack from, and he sees plenty of people driving expensive cars and shit in the neighborhood.

But the thing is, dealing drugs doesn't happen in a vacuum. You need people to sell to. So, he does a bunch of digging and buys in bulk from a guy. If he is smart, which he is, he manages to keep his identity out of it. But who does he sell it to? His friends? Sure. But their dealers, if they aren't already friends of his friend, also have an interest in keeping their customers. And if he sells on the street, he'll get shot because everywhere is owned by someone, and the places that aren't are patrolled by cops.

It's a constant HARD struggle to sell drugs unless you already have a gang, in which case it is as much a rat race as the legitimate job market, this one full of guns and police, customers who owe, or who didn't get what they were expecting, who also have guns. And for the record, dealing to friends just doesn't pay enough, especially when you have to undercut every other dealer out there.

So tell me again how people choose that.
 
I agree that he shouldn't be barred from attending college, or prevented from getting a job in his chosen field. The caveat to that is that society just simply cannot afford to let such a person go freely among us, at least not until whatever drives him to rape rather than have real relationships is resolved. If his propensity to rape cannot be resolved, then it is our duty to ourselves and the 20 some years of work that we spent to produce a human being to give him the opportunity to finish his education in an environment where he cannot or will not rape people. If such a situation is unacceptable to him, then he can either choose to kill himself, and society takes the loss, or he does his best to make do in his situation, and we all do our best to make this unfortunate situation suck as little for them as possible. They didn't ask to be created, and they didn't ask to be shaped into a rapist. At any rate it is not rewarding his rape to let him continue to be a normal person, especially if he proves capable of it.

You continue trying to strawman my position; I do not suggest that we allow people to commit crimes, nor that we reward their commission.

This means that if someone comes to the police and says 'please, I think I might rape someone if left free' then they are just as deserving of the treatment and segregation as the person who has actually raped.

Eventually we will figure out what dysfunction of nurture, genetics, and inebriation that leads to the persistence of rapeist ideation and we'll be able to repair that damage. Or conversely we might figure out some manner of position in society for a rapist which does not lead to unwanted outcomes.

At any rate, your ridiculous straw man keeps failing. Please stop making such flaccid straw man arguments.

At least in this case you weren't rewarding the bad behavior, just not punishing it. So instead of going to jail for rapping a woman he has no punishment for it so in general there is no problem with a guy raping a woman.

The woman can't be un-raped. Ask yourself, what real effect in nature is serviced by his 'punishment'? What actual utility will it serve?

Thousands of rapists have raped before him, been punished, and yet he still raped her. Perhaps in his mind he didn't even see it as rape at the time. He was clearly never taught an understanding that that series of acts, in that kind of context was rape, or even if he was, he was not taught that rape is bad. If he raped her knowingly, he did it with the assumption that he was clever enough to not get caught or he simply did not care.

So, if he did not know it was rape, seeing a punishment for rapists would not phase him; in his mind when he committed the act he was not a rapist so it did not apply. Education in a controlled environment will prevent future rapes; punishment will make him bitter at a system which produced him and punished him for the failures of that very system. It will make him resent the law more than his own actions.

If he was never taught why rape is bad, he will merely seek to rape and be more clever and careful to avoid punishment. Education will give him a foundation for accepting that rape is actually a bad thing to do. punishment merely serves to make him resentful of the law and more careful in the future.

If he knows why it is wrong, and that rape is what he was doing, then he is a psychopath. No amount of punishment will change that, and he needs to be segregated from society or given the option to self-terminate. It is an ugly life to live when someone wants something they can never ethically have, but that they are unable to keep themselves from. Punishment can't fix that.

Because I cannot see any situation where his obvious knowledge that rape is a punishable offense would have prevented this, seeing as how it's impossible to get through 18 years in this world without someone explaining that, and seeing as I've laid this out several times before on these very forums, i can only assume it stems from a dark desires in you to do something just as bad as raping someone.
 
You want society to tell people that a behavior is bad but when society signals that the behavior is bad and especially how bad it is than that's wrong. The punishment for rape, jail time, etc, is society signallying to people that rape is wrong. If you don't punish rape, than it is saying that it's okay.
 
Justice is restitution to the victim for the crime committed. Yes they can't be un-raped but the punishment for that is a form of restitution for the person who the crime was committed upon. And you ask, why. The other women who aren't raped because of the punishment is a reason why. We can't stop all of the crime, but we certainly do try and control the amounts.
 
You want society to tell people that a behavior is bad but when society signals that the behavior is bad and especially how bad it is than that's wrong. The punishment for rape, jail time, etc, is society signallying to people that rape is wrong. If you don't punish rape, than it is saying that it's okay.

I want society to tell people that a behavior is bad *along with explaining the mechanism in reality which makes it bad*. For something to be bad, it must cause something bad in reality to happen. You seem to be missing an understanding of what badness actually is.
 
Justice is restitution to the victim for the crime committed. Yes they can't be un-raped but the punishment for that is a form of restitution for the person who the crime was committed upon. And you ask, why. The other women who aren't raped because of the punishment is a reason why. We can't stop all of the crime, but we certainly do try and control the amounts.

So in other words, his rape of her justifies her incarceration of him. One bad turn deserves another. That his suffering is justified by the happy drugs her body gives her when he suffers, in addition to the drugs your body gives you in seeing her make him suffer. That sounds an awful lot like rape to me, namely the justifications rapists give for it. Your argument is telling in that her abuse of her rapist is entirely aside from your goal of segregating the rapist, which could be accomplished without his having to suffer; hell, it could be accomplished perhaps without having to permanently segregate him, let alone denying him an education and a future
 
Justice is restitution to the victim for the crime committed. Yes they can't be un-raped but the punishment for that is a form of restitution for the person who the crime was committed upon. And you ask, why. The other women who aren't raped because of the punishment is a reason why. We can't stop all of the crime, but we certainly do try and control the amounts.

So in other words, his rape of her justifies her incarceration of him. One bad turn deserves another. That his suffering is justified by the happy drugs her body gives her when he suffers, in addition to the drugs your body gives you in seeing her make him suffer. That sounds an awful lot like rape to me, namely the justifications rapists give for it. Your argument is telling in that her abuse of her rapist is entirely aside from your goal.of segregating the rapist, which could be accomplished without his having to suffer.

The rapist should be thankful that the state incarcerates for the crime as punishment. Without that, the victim and the victim's family will find the offender and inflict justice of their own.
 
So in other words, his rape of her justifies her incarceration of him. One bad turn deserves another. That his suffering is justified by the happy drugs her body gives her when he suffers, in addition to the drugs your body gives you in seeing her make him suffer. That sounds an awful lot like rape to me, namely the justifications rapists give for it. Your argument is telling in that her abuse of her rapist is entirely aside from your goal.of segregating the rapist, which could be accomplished without his having to suffer.

The rapist should be thankful that the state incarcerates for the crime for punishment. Without that, the victim and the victim's family will find the offender and inflict justice of their own.

So the rapist should be thankful that they don't literally murdering him to get high on the feeling they get when they murder him.

That he should be thankful that they merely torture him *despite the fact that he can probably be repaired*.

How can you not see how vile and sick the mind that thinks these things is?
 
The rapist should be thankful that the state incarcerates for the crime for punishment. Without that, the victim and the victim's family will find the offender and inflict justice of their own.

So the rapist should be thankful that they don't literally murdering him to get high on the feeling they get when they murder him.

That he should be thankful that they merely torture him *despite the fact that he can probably be repaired*.

How can you not see how vile and sick the mind that thinks these things is?

If you desire an ordered society, people expect criminals to be punished. If the state treats criminals with kid gloves, then people will step in and do the punishment. You may not like that, but advancing policies which ignore reality and human behavior is a recipe for disaster. And if the state does shirk its monopoly on violence, then the consequence of seeking retribution against a criminal is nothing. A cycle of blood feuds and tit-for-tat civil violence would be unavoidable.
 
So the rapist should be thankful that they don't literally murdering him to get high on the feeling they get when they murder him.

That he should be thankful that they merely torture him *despite the fact that he can probably be repaired*.

How can you not see how vile and sick the mind that thinks these things is?

If you desire an ordered society, people expect criminals to be punished. If the state treats criminals with kid gloves, then people will step in and do the punishment. You may not like that, but advancing policies which ignore reality and human behavior is a recipe for disaster. And if the state does shirk its monopoly on violence, then the consequence of seeking retribution against a criminal is nothing. A cycle of blood feuds and tit-for-tat civil violence would be unavoidable.

You say that, but the fact of the matter is, reality itself proves you are wrong. We've tried things my way and it's worked. I don't see Norway devolving into an orgy of anarchy and violence.

The fact of the matter is, you are addicted not just to doing something just as ethically awful as raping someone but from watching others do it. You are addicted to something as bad as child porn.
 
If you desire an ordered society, people expect criminals to be punished. If the state treats criminals with kid gloves, then people will step in and do the punishment. You may not like that, but advancing policies which ignore reality and human behavior is a recipe for disaster. And if the state does shirk its monopoly on violence, then the consequence of seeking retribution against a criminal is nothing. A cycle of blood feuds and tit-for-tat civil violence would be unavoidable.

You say that, but the fact of the matter is, reality itself proves you are wrong. We've tried things my way and it's worked. I don't see Norway devolving into an orgy of anarchy and violence.

So Norway has no prisons? What is the punishment for rape in Norway?
 
If you desire an ordered society, people expect criminals to be punished. If the state treats criminals with kid gloves, then people will step in and do the punishment. You may not like that, but advancing policies which ignore reality and human behavior is a recipe for disaster. And if the state does shirk its monopoly on violence, then the consequence of seeking retribution against a criminal is nothing. A cycle of blood feuds and tit-for-tat civil violence would be unavoidable.

You say that, but the fact of the matter is, reality itself proves you are wrong. We've tried things my way and it's worked. I don't see Norway devolving into an orgy of anarchy and violence.

Using Norway as a foil is silly. Very different demographics. Very different crime rates. But if the consequence of me killing my daughter's rapist is a slap on the wrist, then I'll kill the fucker.
 
The rapist should be thankful that the state incarcerates for the crime for punishment. Without that, the victim and the victim's family will find the offender and inflict justice of their own.

So the rapist should be thankful that they don't literally murdering him to get high on the feeling they get when they murder him.

That he should be thankful that they merely torture him *despite the fact that he can probably be repaired*.

How can you not see how vile and sick the mind that thinks these things is?

No, it's justice and we give it over to the state so it's orderly instead of just allowing the victims to find the deserved justice for the crime.
 
I posted videos earlier in the thread showing how people treat criminals where there is weak law and order. How would Norway's system deter people from doing that?
 
You say that, but the fact of the matter is, reality itself proves you are wrong. We've tried things my way and it's worked. I don't see Norway devolving into an orgy of anarchy and violence.

Using Norway as a foil is silly. Very different demographics. Very different crime rates. But if the consequence of me killing my daughter's rapist is a slap on the wrist, then I'll kill the fucker.

Of course the demographics are different. Because they have moved their culture away from having a porno show of torturing people. They have gone through the detox and are living clean, and that kind of world is one we could have if we too kicked the habit.

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I posted videos earlier in the thread showing how people treat criminals where there is weak law and order. How would Norway's system deter people from doing that?

It obviously works, as you yourself have noted that there is less crime there.
 
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