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[–]SeanBox[S]0 points
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Does someone having a drug addiction mean they should become a slave? Look at your options for traffic tickets...1.work on your own time and give them money you worked for...2. Community service, where you work for them and they don't pay you...3.sit in jail, but at least they air condition the hotbox these days. This is slavery. The 13th amendment doesn't specify felony or misdemeanor...any "crime"
That's a specific complaint. If you have a specific complaint about drug law, stump for change in drug law. As far as going to jail for not paying a civil fine, that is clearly not a common outcome and you can once again stump for a specific change. If you have complaints, either put forward a better solution or keep them to yourself.
Also you failed to address my basic concern. Prison is a necessary evil for a civil society. I would rather not put rapists on the streets. If you remove those words from the constitution you will be faced with either release or kill as a framework of justice which seems much more barbaric than this so called "slavery".
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Someone can be in prison without being a slave. I'm talking about changing the very definition of justice. It would change the lives for the millions of people already there and the millions more that will inevitably follow in their footsteps. The debt isn't even being "paid to society" anymore with the private prison system making the profits from the American people's human labor.
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[–] SeanBox [S] ago
Does someone having a drug addiction mean they should become a slave? Look at your options for traffic tickets...1.work on your own time and give them money you worked for...2. Community service, where you work for them and they don't pay you...3.sit in jail, but at least they air condition the hotbox these days. This is slavery. The 13th amendment doesn't specify felony or misdemeanor...any "crime"
[–] JohnPaulJones 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's a specific complaint. If you have a specific complaint about drug law, stump for change in drug law. As far as going to jail for not paying a civil fine, that is clearly not a common outcome and you can once again stump for a specific change. If you have complaints, either put forward a better solution or keep them to yourself.
Also you failed to address my basic concern. Prison is a necessary evil for a civil society. I would rather not put rapists on the streets. If you remove those words from the constitution you will be faced with either release or kill as a framework of justice which seems much more barbaric than this so called "slavery".
[–] SeanBox [S] ago
Someone can be in prison without being a slave. I'm talking about changing the very definition of justice. It would change the lives for the millions of people already there and the millions more that will inevitably follow in their footsteps. The debt isn't even being "paid to society" anymore with the private prison system making the profits from the American people's human labor.