Quote (inkanddagger @ Nov 2 2017 01:48pm)
Why would I want to just make an individual experience agony? And I do not believe in prison. Slavery is a mockery of creation. I would want that person on the street as an example of what we do to them. Vlad wasn't famous for legal prosecution, he was famous for putting the heads of enemy combatants on stakes and lining national borders with them to intimidate his enemies. Vlad's idea was okay, but people can always look away from a dead man's head. It's much more difficult to ignore a person with no limbs begging for food in the streets because he was associated with a terrorist cell.
The state doesn't have the right to torture you or should not be able to take away your life. But the collective state offers protection against what is seen as negative or counter productive to society and as such you remove those from society who don't deserve to be apart of it.
The government however has no part in your life since that's your life. So it has no right to inflict physical violence onto you as a mean of punishment or to take your life.
Prison isn't slavery , it's a means to an end to control what collectively a society wants to prevent from being apart of society.
I know you are going to go off about the fact minority groups are the majority of the prison population but that doesn't mean you can conflate that to mean slavery. What that is , is simply just a misapplication of justice.
Maybe that's why you think center left or left leaning is center right or people who lean liberal aren't real liberals to you because you have abandoned the ideas of classical liberalism to suit your own ideological pursuit of "justice" but don't realize you end up just being a form of authoritarianism that you despise the far right/conservatives for adhering too.