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I didn't mean to imply that you did.

You're advocating for arbitrarily cruel punishment that is out of line with sentencing guidelines in the US and international human rights conventions more broadly.

Given that, I'm asking where you draw the line when it comes to "violence" and if you'd be satified to see significantly more people imprisoned for life.

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At least in the US, far more people should be removed from society, yes. Even a brief search will turn up large numbers of rapists and murderers (for example) that are sentenced and released over and over again. This is indeed arbitrarily cruel to law-abiding citizens.

As far as it goes, I think conditions in prisons should be far nicer than they are now. In these days of videoconferencing, it needn't be very different than lockdown. I don't believe in punishment; I believe in permanent removal from society.

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