• crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to disagree with you. What else would you expect? I could also challenge you to think carefully about the consequences that this kind of policy would have, but I have only a smidgen of hope that you actually would.

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      1 year ago

      Please, by all means I welcome you to challenge my opinion by refuting it here. My mind is not made up, I’m a self-admitted humble idiot who deserves the benefit of the doubt.

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        1 year ago

        What opinion exactly? You’ve only stated that you agree with someone else’s.
        If you think that subjecting prisoners of certain crimes to inhumane conditions is a good idea, then it’s a simple refutation: the justice system is not perfect and people who are innocent WILL be subjected to that treatment on occasion, which is unacceptable - a similar argument to the one against capital punishment.
        If you want to get into a debate on rehabilitation vs. punishment then that’s another matter.

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          I am not being sarcastic when I say this, but you have convinced me to change my mind with a single simple refutation.

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            1 year ago

            Well that is the very pinnacle of discourse my friend. Thank you very much for being intelligent enough to do it and brave enough to say it. I like to think I do the same when I encounter a sound argument. Are you a scientist by any chance?

            Edit to add:

            the elderly professor took the American by the hand and said — with passion — ‘My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years. We clapped our hands red.

            ~Richard Dawkins

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              Are you a scientist by any chance?

              No, and I am barely intelligent enough to recognize that I’m stupid.

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                Nope. The ability to change your thinking on a topic as emotive as this is rare in my experience, and a sign of intelligence in my opinion. As is realising you’re stupid. The vast majority of true idiots don’t.