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Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

120 points · 202 comments · bonefishgrill

boredatoms · 1790270522 · focus · HN ↗
The US needs to get over this whole ‘punishment’ view of prison. It either a social-safety quarantine, or a rehabilitation
1. mrits · 1790270740 · focus · HN ↗
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  1. Glemmlko · 1790271477 · focus · HN ↗
    No it shouldn't.
    It should be the understanding of a society that no human being is just 'bad'. A human being became 'bad' by a definiton of a society due to circumstances like upbringing, environment etc. and a society which failed you.
    Prison is the removal of you from society due to impatibility of current values and should help you become 'better'.
    Be happy that you had good/avg parents, the mental strength to help yourself, money, luck, body strength, whatever it was which allowed you to comment on HN instead of being in a prison.
    0xDEAFBEAD · 1790271883 · focus · HN ↗
    >no human being is just 'bad'
    Meanwhile in this thread, everyone is getting worked up about how evil Texas Christians supposedly are, as though a red flag was waved in front of a bull.
    <a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/" rel="nofollow">https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
    Glemmlko · 1790272262 · focus · HN ↗
    And?
    My comment is independent form the others.
    0xDEAFBEAD · 1790274077 · focus · HN ↗
    Put your ideas into action in this thread instead of getting self-righteous about people who (a) may or may not even exist, (b) mostly aren't reading this thread even if they do exist.
    Glemmlko · 1790289033 · focus · HN ↗
    You assume, you don't know what I do besides writing a comment like this.
    Stop trying to assume things, if you don't want to take part in this discussion, don't.
    But stop playing a game of fallacy

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