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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You're a prison abolitionist. You're in a high stakes discussion where you have to answer seriously and be convincing.

Someone asks you : "yeah, but what are we to do with people breaking the law, then? What will you replace prisons with ?"

What will you answer?

Edit : Thanks a lot for your answer, they were very interesting and reflecting different ways to frame a world without prisons.

Except from one or two edgelord hot takes, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're just using a completely different scenario to move the goalposts.

How so? If you abolish prisons, they're abolished for every scenario

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

From the original comment:

I'm fine saying that people like Dutroux, Breivick or Abdeslam shall not be out before a very long-time. However, they're not the average criminal.

Obviously they aren't for complete prison abolishment.