Cool, just testing your devotion to the show. I've seen some fans who apparently can't tell the difference between fiction and reality (or detect flaws in ideologies, for that matter).
Anyway, if people are committing crimes in order to escape the horrors of the free world, then what does it say about society? If someone is trying to be a law abidding citizens, but can't find work, can't get health care, can't afford basic necessities like food, water, and shelter, then there's something wrong there that prison, and thereby the sacrifice of personal freedom, is a better alternative.
I think often times, people resort to crime as a means of survival. Maybe a well-to-do individual will murder his wife or embezzle funds, but if a person has grown up with nothing and ends up with nothing, how willing will they be to die with nothing? Personal responsibility is always important, but so is social responsibility. You can't tolerate a system where individuals scrape by and never get anything for their hard work and expect that crime won't appear.
This guy is repugnant. He does it only for the media attention.
Likewise, his attention grabbing travasties don't do anything. They're a spectacle. Likewise, he has legal action against him, which means on some level, he's walking the fine line of being law abidding and law breaking. If he ever gets more than a lawsuit, he'd probably (and approrpiately) end up in the slammer. If he does, will he argue that he's different because unlike the others, he didn't knopw what he was doing was breaking the law? His situation would hardly be unique. How many others broke the law without purposefully intending to? How many just did what they needed to (or wanted to, in his case) and ended up being treated like a wicked, inhuman, incurable criminal?
Rehabilitation is something he seems to ignore, and rehabilitation is proactive. True, cable and coffee aren't necessary, but neither is abject cruelty. And as if the lack of freedom isn't a punishment enough. Prison isn't mean to cause people to suffer, the imprisonment, the lack of choice, is the punishment in and of itself.
You can argue whether or not you find it effective, but for some it is. Then where do you tow the line of making it a "good enough" punishment for others? Daily beatings? Humiliation and dehumanization?
Anyway, if people are committing crimes in order to escape the horrors of the free world, then what does it say about society? If someone is trying to be a law abidding citizens, but can't find work, can't get health care, can't afford basic necessities like food, water, and shelter, then there's something wrong there that prison, and thereby the sacrifice of personal freedom, is a better alternative.
I think often times, people resort to crime as a means of survival. Maybe a well-to-do individual will murder his wife or embezzle funds, but if a person has grown up with nothing and ends up with nothing, how willing will they be to die with nothing? Personal responsibility is always important, but so is social responsibility. You can't tolerate a system where individuals scrape by and never get anything for their hard work and expect that crime won't appear.
This guy is repugnant. He does it only for the media attention.
Likewise, his attention grabbing travasties don't do anything. They're a spectacle. Likewise, he has legal action against him, which means on some level, he's walking the fine line of being law abidding and law breaking. If he ever gets more than a lawsuit, he'd probably (and approrpiately) end up in the slammer. If he does, will he argue that he's different because unlike the others, he didn't knopw what he was doing was breaking the law? His situation would hardly be unique. How many others broke the law without purposefully intending to? How many just did what they needed to (or wanted to, in his case) and ended up being treated like a wicked, inhuman, incurable criminal?
Rehabilitation is something he seems to ignore, and rehabilitation is proactive. True, cable and coffee aren't necessary, but neither is abject cruelty. And as if the lack of freedom isn't a punishment enough. Prison isn't mean to cause people to suffer, the imprisonment, the lack of choice, is the punishment in and of itself.
You can argue whether or not you find it effective, but for some it is. Then where do you tow the line of making it a "good enough" punishment for others? Daily beatings? Humiliation and dehumanization?