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David Cashion's avatar

More prisons, less crime, not rocket science.

Leaded gas my ass.

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Curling Iron's avatar

There are more prisons and prisoners than there ever have been.

So then crime must be at its lowest ever, right?

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Emma M.'s avatar

Fun fact: Prisons didn't even exist in most of human history, dungeons and oubliettes for nobles to keep each other in notwithstanding.

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Curling Iron's avatar

Discussions of crime and punishment are best without historical context. We prefer simplistic syllogisms that play well at Bible study.

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David Cashion's avatar

Not enough

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Curling Iron's avatar

ThatтАЩs why I favor large scale public executions.

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David Cashion's avatar

Look around.

We have public executions every hour of the day.

Mentally ill fentanyl deaths.

It's called compassion.

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Curling Iron's avatar

WhatтАЩs more compassionate than a society that provides for the mentally ill a means to die peacefully by their own hand?

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Curling Iron's avatar

Yeah. But money. Got to keep making it rain on war industries.

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David Cashion's avatar

Shut up

Dip Shit

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Curling Iron's avatar

I love you David Cashion. But national restoration sucks. Almost as much as North Carolina.

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

That formula really only works when the possibility of going to prison acts as a deterrent. World Population Review claims that "the United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population."

Yet we still seem to have a crime problem.

Could be our appetite for illegal drugs and their idiotic prohibition. Could be our tendency to take others to court to settle grievances that otherwise could be handled personally. I don't pretend to know why the threat of prison seems to have little effect on crime.

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David Cashion's avatar

Most criminals don't commit just one crime.

While in prison they aren't for committing crimes.

Prison removes society threats.

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Stxbuck's avatar

ItтАЩs rather difficult to procreate in prison.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

But it HAS been done.

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Greg's avatar

Unless you're a woman with a trans cellmate.

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David Cashion's avatar

You don't know shit, I grew up smoking diesel dope in Picayune Ms.

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David Cashion's avatar

Cousins did the same in Freer.

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Curling Iron's avatar

Is that why you married one of them?

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David Cashion's avatar

It worth it to race.

Also the unleaded ate valves.

Remember tuning off your car buying a coke get back in and it was still running or chugging.

Dieseling is what we called it.

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Curling Iron's avatar

Scenic Juarez. One of the best friends I ever had grew up there.

Leaded gas whatever.

Dude was for real.

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