We have prisons…not despite the fact they turn criminals into more skillful criminals, but because of it…Criminals are people who, for the most part, come from the fringes of society, those who have the least to gain from our culture as it is. They have the most to gain from changing society or even destroying it and replacing it with a new order that favors them. Maybe a better order, maybe not. It doesn’t matter. So, because they are on the fringes they end up hanging out with those who break laws, who teach them to break laws. Maybe they go to prisons and learn how to break even more important laws. The next thing you know, these potential revolutionaries are now criminals. Society can absorb criminals fairly easily, revolutionaries less so. Criminals have a place in the system., revolutionaries do not. That’s why we have prisons. To turn misfits into murderers. It may harm society, make it less pleasant, but it doesn’t destroy it. – The Ethical Assassin, David Liss
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:53:01 +0000
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