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Norway’s cushy prisons have a 20% recidivism rate to America’s 70%. A punitive criminal justice system tends to lead to more victimization (and costs!), not less.
I firmly believe in my comment however I wish I could delete my comment because I didn't realize it was so upsetting to people.
Apologies!
Our criminal justice system is usually just completely ignored by people. Having any awareness and discussion of it at all is an improvement, IMO.
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"It's a good rule in life never to apologize. The right kind of people never want apologies, and the wrong kind take advantage of them."
a bit mangled. Full details:
"Apologizing easily and quickly is what millennials want"
Not gonna get it, though.
It's been observed that demanding an apology for everything is a weasel-y, performative, and Millennial thing, and the author is actually pushing back against that.
I see what the author is saying now. I don't think I'd go to either extreme, either always apologizing or never. Explanations are always nice when they're not hollow excuses, but IMO apologies are better when they're reserved for the times you sincerely fuck up and feel bad.
I'm an early Millennial, though, so maybe just less civilized than my younger brethren, lol.
There are many forms of crimes, dar say majority, that don't cause great harm to others (eg theft, drug possession). For those, and the > 0% falsely/wrongfully incarcerated, you should have empathy in general for prisoners and expect humane conditions.
That’s a matter of opinion. 2/3s of America cannot afford a $400 emergency expense. If you steal and crash someone’s car, and that causes the individual to lose their job while the insurance is being figured out, their kids could spend the next few months in serious suffering.
What about smaller crimes, like shoplifting? 44% of our economy is small businesses; steal from them when they are already at the edge of a knife, treat it like it’s nothing, and you’ll break real families.
You have no conception of how much a “small” theft can injure most people.
As for drug possession; that imprisonment is quite possibly the best thing you can do for them compared to them overdosing on a street corner. Any mother would have their child eat Nutraloaf for 5 years straight than overdose on a public road.
I think the proof of that unwillingness to dedicate time is in the pudding. Do you work to make inmates better food, or make their kitchen more inviting? Does anyone responding indignantly to OP? This food critic wrote this thinkpiece based on their little adventure, then they’re going to go back to their enlightened culinary experiences at Naha et al. So what have they really accomplished?
It almost reads as condescending towards inmates: a bunch of high society types gawking and pontificating from afar about how positively terrible their living conditions are. Oh and also, did you hear about Crowdstrike and Harris and the new way to build a UI with Javascript? It’s like overhearing conversation taking place between a couple of people from Google on a team building field trip to the zoo.
I’d love to be wrong and come back here and read a piece about how some rich tech bros decided to revolutionize a correctional facility’s food system. But until I see that I see no reason to change my opinion on the behavior I’m seeing right now.
> it’s also a hard sell to ask people to give up their limited time with family, friends, hobbies and interests, and go do that actual work
This just shows your own selfishness.
But let’s not lose perspective here. Murder, rape, embezzlement… these are despicably selfish acts, among others.
I have a family to care for, I do the best I can to provide food, shelter, medical care, and proper development so I don’t raise a child that becomes a criminal. And yes, sometimes that involves actually having fun. Just because I don’t feel I should sacrifice everything to live an ascetic lifestyle serving criminals, does not make me absolutely selfish. There’s much more nuance than that.
That would indeed be something.-
In reality it does not hold true that all persons in jails/prisons deserve the punishment.
In fact, this injustice is often perpetrated by the same people who are overwhelmed by a complicated world and vote for “tough on crime” politicians who will perpetrate the injustice to help calm their voters’ meek anxieties.