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How do you feel about those convicted for selling marijuana or just having marijuana in enough of a quantity that the police decided they were selling?
Completely different topic. My brother was a victim of this so I don’t feel very fondly about it. Like I said though, completely different topic.
How is it a completely different topic? Do you think the choice to smoke or carry marijuana justifies being imprisoned and enslaved?
False dilemma. It would be like me saying “do you think pedophiles and mass murderers shouldn’t have to pay back their debt to society?”
As far as marijuana decriminalization goes - I’m all for it. And I don’t even smoke.
I think the issue in this thread is that when you think of slavery, the only thing that comes to your mind is the worst of chattel slavery, which was worse than our current prison system. There are many other forms of slavery throughout history some were "better" than our current prison system, many were worse.
Curious if people in this sub would rather be in an American, Russian, or Chinese prison system.
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Do you really think it's all people that "deserve" it? Also, only 31% of the prison population is white. Do you think that's a coincidence? Are POC that much more likely to commit crimes worthy of prison time? Or is the system maybe prejudiced in who it targets? None of this is a "different topic". It's all interconnected.
El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world and it’s not really even close.
It's not really even relevant. El Salvador has a smaller population than New York City (6M vs 8M) and statistics don't really scale like that when you're comparing a country of 6 million to a country of 333 million. The US has 4.2% of the world population and 20% of the world incarcerated population. We have more than 3 times more people in prison than the total population of El Salvador.
Ok? And?
You want me to respond to you comment that isn’t factual? I did.
You're acting like you're intellectually superior here, but dismissing someone's overall point because one thing they said wasn't exactly correct is lazy and obvious, and your commitment to defending the exploitation of the unjustly incarcerated is gross.