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Sk8eM dUb
Many prison guards are inherently bad. If they had different character, they probably wouldn't do that job.
John_Doe
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Its the power they have over people that corrupts them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Sk8eM dUb
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I'm not disputing that. That's not a good reason to eliminate prisons. The proper question seems to be - how do we collectively hire good/moral/fair/humane prison guards?
JZA
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Sure is not the best reason to eliminate prisions, but prisions needs to be eliiminated.
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True. Also, a larger prison population hurts the economy.
John_Doe
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Keeping prisons is one of the few legit functions of government.
Sk8eM dUb
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Irrelevant to the discussion. We're talking about how to morally deal with people who refuse to conform to the larger societies agreed upon rules. It's not as simple as *do nothing*.