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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (62111)11/4/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: pezz  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<<so you should do what you love.>> As it happens I do....... None the less I would still rather be fishing. Either way as most people can't this is not a worthy argument.
<<I do not see the
utility in imprisoning non-violent offenders. I would like to see them changed into the
kind of people who choose NOT to steal- >> Ahhh.... wouldn't we all? Unfortunately this is wishful thinking at this stage of our understanding of human nature. There is no evidence of any type of rehabilitation working in the slightest consistent manner. << incarceration will merely make them
better, and probably more violent, criminals. >> Well at least while incarcerated we are free of them. I understand it is not a simple question and prison indeed has it's failings. If you have a better solution.... Society screams for it..... People's choices are not easily influenced other than carrots or sticks. As long as whats mine is the carrot we need the prison as the stick.
pez
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