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Prison life being too easy is probably a major reason so many people end up there. After all, you have your meals handed to you every day, you don't need a car or public transportation, and you don't have to worry about keeping the utility bills paid.
i have known some people that, that is their retirement plan, hit someone in the head and go spend thirty years at the big house with brother in law and cousins, and i'm not joking
Seems to me that America The Land of The Free (at least that is what they tell me) may not be your cup of tea, and that a dictatorship may be more to your liking.
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Originally Posted by Atalanta
Isn't it ridiculous that people are choosing to break the law and be in prison for drug charges??
A law is a law even if you do not agree with it.
Not all laws are just or moral! Given that most laws are man-made there is room for errors! Besides, it is our civil duty as Americans to protest, and if necessary ignore bad laws. Look I'm all for locking up those who commit violent acts, such as robbers, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and even those who commit acts such as embezzling, or stealing someone's life savings! But locking up and destroying someone's life for partaking in recreational drugs, especially if they have not caused harm to someone else is overkill, counter-productive and quite frankly immoral!
i have known some people that, that is their retirement plan, hit someone in the head and go spend thirty years at the big house with brother in law and cousins, and i'm not joking
Why not? Spend the rest of your life playing cards and dominoes with them. And when you're past age 65, I doubt you would be pestered by another prisoner wanting to use you as a substitute for a woman.
In Oklahoma, you don't need to harm anyone. Just grow some marijuana and end up in prison for as much as life. But most people get considerably less than that.
Yours too.
Just something else, comparisons you throw around
Obviously the point of just because it's a law it doesn't make it a just law. Locking up someone or supporting the idea of locking up someone, and potentially ruining that person's life simply for possessing or smoking weed, is about as ridiculous as it gets! It's a great comparison, because Jim Crow was law in many states at one time, as was segregation. Were those moral, or just laws? Think real hard before you answer.
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