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Originally Posted by richde
The only "failure" I see is the stupidity of the offenders. Stupid criminals and an efficient legal system team up to give us these rates.
On a side note, there's a bill in congress to legalize MJ.
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Wow, 5% of the world population resides in the US, yet we have 25% of the world prison population, and all you see is "the stupidity of the offenders"?
Truly amazing.
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Originally Posted by Groesbeck Hurricane
I do not see how a group of vigilantes could provide better justice to the accused and the accuser.
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I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm on my part...
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Originally Posted by Groesbeck Hurricane
Have you read Karl Marx? He created a great work about a perfect utopean society. He presented great arguments, his ideas are very enlightening, and it reads as if it would be the most wonderful system around. Have you seen his system applied? It has always ended up in a complete mess because humans want to be in charge. It just simply, in my opinion, cannot work with humans. Ants and bees and such seem to do just fine with a similar system. We cannot.
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Are you implying i'm a communist because i'd like to know why
our prison population has soared by over 400% since 1980?
If so, frak you.
As far as our prisoners being 'more free' than a 'free' saudi arabian(or Chinese, or wherever), i think you're nuts. I've never been to prison, but i bet living in Riyadh is 10,000x better than living in a steel cage.