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Originally Posted by canucklehead2
Especially in the context of who ends up in the prison system long term and for what. Murderers and rapists whom we think of being a vast majority or prisoners is in fact a very tiny amount. Most people are in for bullshit drug possession charges (not even trafficking or distribution) if I'm not mistaken!
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Just going off personal opinion/experience, and what I understand about psychopathy. Good people want to believe most prisoners are better than they actually are.
The people I know that ended up in prison deserved it, likely deserve more time than they got, even if I personally like them.
I mean this is one of those odd conversations.
I mean there's good reason people want to emotionally shelter themselves from the unfortunate reality.
Most people have had bad moments in their lives where they've done things they shouldn't have.
But a significant minority have done a number of unforgivable things.
I honestly think our society has a real problem acknowledging the dark under belly of our society.
I'm not just talking about people beating the living hell out of eachother because they wanted an 8th ball of coke.
I'm talking about the middle school teacher that gets caught with kiddie porn, I'm talking about people who turn a blind eye to any number of things.
Shit is dark, and yet at the exact same it is bright.
I think our society is truly having trouble with the good and evil paradigm.
For whatever reason we want to abstract away the concept of evil.
Our society has more or less established itself on the concept that it is an irrational or even bigoted viewpoint.
Or when we do accept variants of the concept we try to externalize it to this outside force. I.e. the Devil, atheism, capitalism, racism, etc.
It doesn't hurt that we've become a society where people aren't forced to take on an idea like original sin. Where basically you accept there's evil in side of you, refusing to do so is one of the biggest acts of evil.
Unironically you can see this idea of subconscious racism as being a variant of that.
Unironically you see these anti racism cults being very similar to religious cults, obsessed with purification and guilt.
Rational intelligent people continually believe narratives that racism/sexism makes up a far larger proportion of the evil quota than it actually does.