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What's the point of jail?

We spend so much tax moneh on it and jailbirds still can't be enslaved anymore in America. I get why it used to be a thing back then because it was slavery by another name. But now that times have changed, why are prisons used and no other forms of punishment? 🤔

If someone steals a bike or breaks someone's glass or pushes someone, why do we take years from their life instead of just simply punishing them? Do you know how long years are? Even worse, they network with other criminals even worse than they are and they're not in there teaching each other to behave 😂

Why do we take years and decades from people's lives in response to something small or simple? ,_,
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SnailTeeth · 36-40, M
I agree, the world is overpopulated, and we should have a year-long purge; where all crimes, no matter how small, are served with an immediate death penalty! We just need to acquire enough robot police to carry this out.
Mindful · 56-60, F
@SnailTeeth well Texas is planning to remove requirements on carrying permits for concealed weapons. No permit required and no need to conceal. So backwards. But people literally want the right to shoot in self defense in public. I expect both innocent and non innocent will be purged. Accidental shootings are pretty high.
SnailTeeth · 36-40, M
@Mindful I don't know what is wrong those people. Why can't they just admit that they like guns, instead of trying to tell us they need them for protection? If someone goes into a store to buy a gun for protection, they should be evaluated, because I don't think paranoid, delusional people should be walking around with automatic weapons. The American military incur so few casualties in modern-day war, that if the government did outlaw guns, they could easily take them by force, like the Australian government did to the real life Crocodile Dundee (In 1999, they shot a national treasure dead on his lawn, because he refused surrender his guns).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Ansell
@SnailTeeth bruh wut