Imprisoning a person seems to me like the most desperate solution, one that does not compensate the victim—instead, it indirectly forces them to pay for the costs of incarceration. I understand that there are situations where, as a society, we don't know how to handle it differently, but it should be only a handful of people, with the awareness that this is a suboptimal solution and with the hope that we will soon find a better one.
If a country specializes in imprisoning people, it feels like modern-day slavery to me. And the relative number of prisoners could serve as an index of that culture’s backwardness.
Hynek
npub1lz…hh86s
2025-02-11 05:30:50
Author Public Key
npub1lz8xv2dnyryrk4vswkcgf52vqqzruqwuyp53s7pvusx4fef9fh2s7hh86sPublished at
2025-02-11 05:30:50Event JSON
{
"id": "2f2d8d48a4d29b1bd8692d766972c03e770745c4e3b20e1f6ce4106fca2c87c4",
"pubkey": "f88e6629b320c83b559075b084d14c00043e01dc206918782ce40d54e5254dd5",
"created_at": 1739251850,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "Imprisoning a person seems to me like the most desperate solution, one that does not compensate the victim—instead, it indirectly forces them to pay for the costs of incarceration. I understand that there are situations where, as a society, we don't know how to handle it differently, but it should be only a handful of people, with the awareness that this is a suboptimal solution and with the hope that we will soon find a better one.\n\nIf a country specializes in imprisoning people, it feels like modern-day slavery to me. And the relative number of prisoners could serve as an index of that culture’s backwardness.",
"sig": "d5e40f1ffb52c9e2306a5e130934a6b49a2017d03a7512e8907e9ebe34ee051012862f521158724b7e8be27ff96c8238c29faaf332501c4f6c54661abd9c025c"
}