Can we maybe acknowledge for 3 seconds that people are human, have human reactions, and a very common one upon seeing for the first time truly evil people who have done truly evil things is to wish bad things upon them as a knee jerk response, and that this probably doesn’t really inform their actual desired policies instead of just making a pithy reddit-snark response that ignores that context and blames them for that very human reaction?
knee jerk response […] this probably doesn’t really inform their actual desired policies
They continue advocating he be tortured in prison in their next comment nine hours after their first (along with the dumbest fucking strawman I’ve seen this month, equating to not wanting torture in prisons to wanting him released without consequence), so actually, I do think they’re short-sighted enough to unironically advocate for torture in US prisons.
You know where Anders Brevik is right now? A long-term, high-security Norwegian prison with a capacity of 160 – hardly 2x the number of people he personally killed in a neo-Nazi mass-shooting – where among other things: “As far as practicable [this does not apply to Brevik, IIRC, because it’s not practicable for him, but for context for what you’d expect to be the hardest prison in Norway], inmates shall have access to community during work, training, program or other interventions, and during their free time.” You know what that doesn’t change? What Anders Brevik is doing right now 15 years later: continuing to spend the rest of his life in prison away from the rest of society. The way it should be, not because of specific moral consideration for Anders Brevik but because it’s the only way to have a functioning prison system.
You think it’s “human” to advocate giving the government – this government, I’ll add – carte blanche to torture people; I think it’s abjectly inhuman. If you’re advocating rape in prisons, if you’re advocating torture in prisons, show some basic, human emotional maturity and consider what your foaming at the mouth for prisons to be hellholes does to society.
Can we maybe acknowledge for 3 seconds that people are human, have human reactions, and a very common one upon seeing for the first time truly evil people who have done truly evil things is to wish bad things upon them as a knee jerk response, and that this probably doesn’t really inform their actual desired policies instead of just making a pithy reddit-snark response that ignores that context and blames them for that very human reaction?
They continue advocating he be tortured in prison in their next comment nine hours after their first (along with the dumbest fucking strawman I’ve seen this month, equating to not wanting torture in prisons to wanting him released without consequence), so actually, I do think they’re short-sighted enough to unironically advocate for torture in US prisons.
You know where Anders Brevik is right now? A long-term, high-security Norwegian prison with a capacity of 160 – hardly 2x the number of people he personally killed in a neo-Nazi mass-shooting – where among other things: “As far as practicable [this does not apply to Brevik, IIRC, because it’s not practicable for him, but for context for what you’d expect to be the hardest prison in Norway], inmates shall have access to community during work, training, program or other interventions, and during their free time.” You know what that doesn’t change? What Anders Brevik is doing right now 15 years later: continuing to spend the rest of his life in prison away from the rest of society. The way it should be, not because of specific moral consideration for Anders Brevik but because it’s the only way to have a functioning prison system.
You think it’s “human” to advocate giving the government – this government, I’ll add – carte blanche to torture people; I think it’s abjectly inhuman. If you’re advocating rape in prisons, if you’re advocating torture in prisons, show some basic, human emotional maturity and consider what your foaming at the mouth for prisons to be hellholes does to society.