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Thrwr11on How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

Mine is a european perspective, too. And most of these people really have nothing left to lose apart from taxpayer paid welfare -> ordinary civility is absent, disputes are unnegotiable. (Unless you want to have your property / home / loved ones sabotaged.). Personality disorders are rampant. You not looking close enough is not a solution to the drug problem.

Thrwr11on How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

Addicts are people and deserve help, sure. Most of the hate towards them comes from their bad behavior and how that affects other people. Deathwishes are just one way to cope with the inability to actually do anything about, say, noisy or violent drug addicts or criminals who don't care about other people.

Thrwr11on How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. Anecdatum does not exist.

Thrwr11on How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband

You have to put the slips of paper back if you want to simulate dice.