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Originally Posted by PaulFXH Realistically, how long do you think it would take to make a significant difference in the living condifions of these people? A year? Ten years? One hundred years? |
I would say it is a continuing process. I would not be in the society I live in today if not my fathers and my forefathers had not done what they have done. My point with the comment is that you do not alliviate the problems around you, by punishing people unnessecerally who is already being punished. I do not make my country better by punishing those people who are already in jail. On the contrary, I would make it worse as the hatred and division amongst us would rise, making my own life a hellhole in the process.
Of course we could just give up and lay flad down on our backs, but that would help nobody.
And might I add, that the whole point of putting people to jail is to make them better human beings who can navigate peacefully and under the rules of the society we created, and NOT to make them worse of and worse as human beings as they were when they came in.
Call me naive, but that is what I believe.