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  • iii@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlOn prison abolition
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    24 hours ago

    Yeah. I gather you’re from the US.

    I’m not telling you what to do.

    If we “only” reduce the prison population to 5% or 1% of its current count in the process

    Then why call it abolish prisons?

    I see now that you’re trying trying to trigger an additional emotional response. Working on association, rather than logic. Such manipulation, especially, is something I would not want to be a part of. It’s vile.

    You do you. I’ll just repeat my original statement: it also drives away people, who would otherwise agree.



  • iii@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlOn prison abolition
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    1 day ago

    Wouldn’t giving her the mean to pay the rent prevent her from needing to take part of drug traffic ?

    From context I gather you’re from Belgium. Isn’t there already OCMW/CPAS for free housing?

    What do you do when it’s the single mom in free housing that just wants 500EUR extra cash? Find political consensus to give her a bigger free house, with a pool, and a credit card?


  • iii@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlOn prison abolition
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    Everybody understands this, but struggles to apply the same logic to other topics.

    People don’t go: England is polio free, yet there’s people with polio.

    Perhaps this method of communication is something that will have to adapt. It disengages a lot of people who otherwise would share the same goals.