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[David Stockhoff]

On 4/12/2012 12:49 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 4/12/2012 11:35 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> OTOH, who could be in prison for life and NOT brutally murder (or want
>> to) everyone he comes in contact with? Indeed, what more could you do to
>> destroy his humanity?
>
> It can really depend on the conditions, and your "feed stock". The 
> easier it is get life, the more typical people will be there, who make 
> it less of a hell hole and are more likely to take rational stances 
> like just wanting to be left alone, or being able to form groups for 
> self-defense that a slightly more enlightened than just another gang.

Probably. But I hope you're not arguing for harsher sentences just to 
make prison life easier for convicts---who have been "defined down" by 
that same logic to include people more like you and me! Might as well be 
China.

Or a country engaged in a War on Petty (Drug-Related) Crimes from which 
it can't ever bring the troops home.