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Seeker
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London Ontario
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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Why not Shi?
Because your system backfires. People don't get 'scared' into not committing crimes.
Your system would create a man who would not be able to function outside of prison.
Also, being cruel to another human being is the basis of criminal behaviour, whether from the state or an individual. In your world, the state is just the biggest bully on the schoolyard.
The purpose of prison to be a place to keep people who would otherwise harm others, to get 'bad guys' of the street. It isn't some kind of s and m domination dungeon for conservatives to jerk off about.
People make mistakes. People change. People get out of prison.
You can have them get out with no education, no skills, and no future, only able to survive in a brutal world where force and violence are the only realities, and they will bring that world out onto the streets of your world.
Or you can give people the opportunity to change.
There are many countries which have Shi's system, of trying to brutalize prisoners enough that they'll be 'scared away'. It just doesn't work, all it does is create hardened criminals.
My experience:
Over this last year, I have been working with a community volunteer group to sentence summary offences given to us by the Crown Prosecutor. We get kids and adults. Assaults, vandalism, petty theft, shoplifting. Sometimes a little more serious.
Well I have learned a lot. I've learned that good people can do stupid things sometimes. I've learned that bad 'punks' can sometimes reform. I've learned that prison can turn a somewhat bratty little boy into a hardened thug with no capacity for human feeling in a year.
So **** institutionalized cruelty and the horse it rode in on. It doesn't work, it's evil, it's counteproductive, it destroys lives, it's childish, and it plain old doesn't work.
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26-05-2002 02:59
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