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 No.16800

I'm reading a book on prisons right now, and it reminded me of the fact that I find this whole prison-system pretty damn horrible. Yet, it's used so liberally. It's like no one in this world remembers that being locked up for even a few months is a very shitty thing to do to a fellow human being. Some of our fellow human beings are really going out of their way to deserve it, but then there's the people who get put into investigative or coercive custody. That hardly seems just to me. Those probably aren't prisons in the legal sense, but you know what I mean so fuck it.

What also doesn't seem just to me is that how shitty your time in prison is depends on a lot of factors, and the severity of the crime you have committed is just one of them and often not the most important one. Six months in ADX Florence might be a lot worse than three years in a minimum-security prison, yet everyone just looks at the numbers in the sentence and not the conditions of the facility. What I find even stranger in this regard is that no one questions the validity of SHU for corrective purposes. If you disobey a guard, your punishment may de facto be a lot harsher than that for many crimes in the outside world.

Prisons of some sort have always existed, to the best of my knowledge, but them being regarded as the only fair and humane punishment (aside from fines) is a new phenomenon, so I think I might be on to something. Public shaming and corporal punishment used to be widely accepted alternatives, and some societies did fine with just demanding a wergeld if someone was unjustly killed. My point isn't that we should bring this back, it's that we should realize that the liberal use of imprisonment is an expression of our particular zeitgeist and that it doesn't get nearly the scrutiny it deserves.

 No.16803

>>16800

IMO imprisoning shouldn't be so severe and people should be given fines more for stuff they could not replicate again.

Getting jailed for rape and murder is all fine. Getting jailed for, say, littering someone's private property or maybe a minimal economic mistake which led to delay in a contract is just bs.


 No.16807

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

I like this guy's take on the subject. Prisons are unquestionably wasteful.

I might point out that numerous societies throughout history have demonstrated little or no tendency to jail others; because of its wasteful nature, it could only be done in societies with sufficient economic excess to accommodate the waste. I don't think it's mentioned explicitly in the following text, but many of the societies discussed demonstrate legal systems which just don't provide for prisons:

daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_systems_very_different_12/LegalSystemsDraft.html


 No.16810

>>16807

Gotta say, that honor ranking system used by the Irish seems more honest than what we have today. The police and other officials are regarded as more credible in court, period. Even when the judges are mistrustful, they will still value officials highly as witnesses. Billions of examples of it.


 No.16815

Prisons are immoral use of force, as far as I've been concerned for the past year or two.

There's dozens of alternatives. In a free market, prisons don't even make sense since it's a waste of time and money.


 No.16821

>>16815

>Prisons are immoral use of force

Okay. What do we do with violent and antisocial people who break the law then?


 No.16829

>>16821

according to him, send 'em to a church.

>>16815

>prisons are an immoral use of force.

No, and that is possible only if you believe you can never know anything for certain (which you already do). You're not sure if he's done something wrong, and hence you'd feel guilty sending him to jail.

>prisons are a waste of time and money in a free market

lol

What are you going to do with terrorists? Put your hands up? Because if you're averse to imprisoning them, then I doubt you'd kill them.

Protip: free market != AnCapism


 No.16835

>>16821

>Okay. What do we do with violent and antisocial people who break the law then?

Most people who break the law are not antisocial and not particularly violent. A lot of crime is committed by juveniles, and those tend to outgrow it eventually. The really, really antisocial ones will eventually end up pushed to the fringes of society or dead, and then they're out of the way.

>>16829

>What are you going to do with terrorists? Put your hands up? Because if you're averse to imprisoning them, then I doubt you'd kill them.

I can only speak for myself, but I actually believe I could kill an IS-goon myself, with a more or less clear conscience. I still feel bad for many of the poor idiots we send to prison.


 No.16836

>>16829

>No, and that is possible only if you believe you can never know anything for certain (which you already do). You're not sure if he's done something wrong, and hence you'd feel guilty sending him to jail.

That's an unbased assumption, and a fairly absurd one. Even if someone committed a crime - and in some cases, it's obvious he did -, then he may not deserve to be locked up over it. A punishment has to fit the crime, and face it, prison sentences fit preciously few crimes.


 No.16838

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>>16821

>Okay. What do we do with violent and antisocial people who break the law then?

The vast majority of people who "break the law" are not violent nor antisocial. Of the minority of those who are, the majority of that minority are violent or antisocial due to circumstance rather than some biological trait. Circumstance can be treated much in the same way you can tend to a dog that bites in order to bring out its better nature over time. When we look at the small percentage who biologically can not stop themselves from being violent, then we're talking either treatment or self defense. Keep in mind that while in 99% of cases I'll advocate for pacifism, I do believe in self defense, but people don't become violent little shits overnight.

Backtracking a little bit, what is the purpose of a prison? There are four purposes to a prison: retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

Retribution

I don't think this is an accurate use of the prison. There are two broad forms of retribution that we can probably agree upon- civil and criminal. In a civil case of retribution, a prison is not profitable in any sense of the word. If I send someone to prison, they can't pay me back and therefore the only purpose it serves is feels- that's not an excuse to take away someone's freedom.

From a criminal case, what purpose does retribution really serve? Most families who wanted the death penalty for a murderer don't feel any satisfaction in hearing he's been put down. Putting a rapist in a prison doesn't unrape the victim. An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. Disagree with me here if you'd like, I know there's plenty who would, but retribution is almost entirely an argument of feelz before realz.

Deterrence

Most cited by statists, there's been an ongoing belief (usually backed up by faith, which the shitposter here not you should attack but likely won't) that the threat of being caught and the threat of punishment will somehow deter someone from committing a crime. In this case, we're justifying a massive system designed to stuff folks into cages as some sort of "deterrence" mechanism. Now, if you're like me and don't believe this works, then it's obvious that this is a shit method. Criminals will just be extra careful in their dealings. Deterrence might actually make people less safe because they will take extra, sometimes more violent steps in order to ensure they aren't caught.

If, however, you are dead set in your ways that deterrence is a viable mechanism for prisons, you'll be hard pressed to prove that they're more efficient than other forms of retribution. A fine violates people's rights far less and has the same results at the end of the day, plus funds collected by a fine can be given to a victim for psychological help if reparations are not possible.


 No.16839

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>>16838

Incapacitation

When referring to incapacitation, the idea that sticking someone in jail will keep them from committing a crime again, we have to ask what's the point if the criminal will eventually be released? Taken to its logical extreme, if we've established that deterrence is a shit reason, than incapacitation can only work if they're locked up indefinitely whether the crime is violent or nonviolent. This costs a lot of money, and is extremely inefficient. Additionally, if we're talking about teenage hooliganism, than locking them up will actually deprive them of the skills they'll need to exit that stage in life, effectively worsening the issue.

If the crime committed is nonviolent such as theft, then it is easier just to publicly make the crime known so that others can take extra precautions around the criminal. Reparations for the victims will serve just fine in this case. If someone is just known to steal shit all the time, then there's a deeper psychological issue that needs to be solved, and prisons are inefficient for this purpose.

If the crime is violent, then we've already established that either something went wrong in the criminal's past, or that it's a biological/psychological phenomenon that leads to the criminal being violent. Your solution is to lock them up and collect the money… How? Because locking someone up and meeting their basic needs to live is expensive as shit. Meanwhile, locking someone up and depriving them of their basic needs is extremely immoral. Far better alternatives include the goddord outlaw system, exiling someone if they are unable to function in society, simple self defense with people being aware of the individual's issues, or at the end of the day, the hundreds of solutions that folks let alone anarchists have come up with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_incarceration#Alternatives_to_incarceration:_examples_of_restorative_and_transformative_justice_approaches

http://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FS-Alternatives-in-a-Nutshell-7.8.pdf

As shitty as lefty solutions are, even the leftist anarchists have thought heavily on this topic: https://network23.org/londonabc/alternatives-to-prison/

Rehabilitation

Based on what we've established above, rehabilitation is typically seen as a "side benefit" in a prison system when it should be the main focus. To this end, if prison systems are a shit, then rehabilitation in a prison setting will be a shit. Rehabilitation can be answered without a prison just fine.

tl;dr- Prisons are inefficient, and the problems they cause can be solved by the local communities in 99% of situations. Even if one were to argue about that 1%, the prisons one wants to establish will affect more than 1% of the population, and thus I consider that argument a cop-out.


 No.16840

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>>16829

>according to him, send 'em to a church.

The fuck are you going on about?

>No, and that is possible only if you believe you can never know anything for certain (which you already do). You're not sure if he's done something wrong, and hence you'd feel guilty sending him to jail.

See >>16836

>What are you going to do with terrorists? Put your hands up? Because if you're averse to imprisoning them, then I doubt you'd kill them.

One of the few things liberals get right is the idea that terrorists are made not born.

A terrorist exists in the first place due to some past injustice committed against him, faggot. Hitler never bothered attacking Liechtenstein because Liechtenstein was a nonviolent nation that didn't fuck with anyone. Similarly, a terrorist doesn't allahu ackbar people if those people didn't hellfire missile his family in the first place. We've been bombing the middle east since before you were born, kid.


 No.16850

I wish someone could get up an anarchy and send all the anarchists to live in it.

They're so removed from reality it's unreal.


 No.16859

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>>16835

>A lot of crime is committed by juveniles, and those tend to outgrow it eventually. The really, really antisocial ones will eventually end up pushed to the fringes of society or dead, and then they're out of the way.

So we're just supposed to lock our door and stay out of his way until he grows out of it or gets killed by someone tougher.


 No.16863

>>16859

That's what guns are for, you complete moron! Someone assaults you, you have a right to defend yourself. What exactly is so hard to understand about that?


 No.16864

>>16821

>What do we do with violent and antisocial people

They'll generally get themselves shot in the act of harming or threatening someone, in an armed society. Plus, nobody will want to do business with them, refusing to sell food and medicine, or even allow them on their property. Kind of hard not to get shot when everyone considers you a trespasser.

>who break the law

This is an extremely complicated question in a polycentric legal system. It depends on what sort of law is broken and what the relevant legal structures have to say about it. It can't be answered in such broad terms.

>>16829

>according to him, send 'em to a church.

That hasn't popped up in any of the proposed alternatives so far, so no.

>that is possible only if you believe you can never know anything for certain

Empirically, you can't, but the big problem with what you said is:

>You're not sure if he's done something wrong, and hence you'd feel guilty sending him to jail.

That is not the reason that prisons are immoral. The use of force is only justified in interrupting the initiatory use of force. Once an individual no longer poses a threat to you, you are not justified in continuing to use force, like they do with prisons.

>What are you going to do with terrorists?

There's no special class of criminals. In the Icelandic model, for instance, all crimes are torts. Anyone who attempts to do harm against anyone for any reason is simply a tortfeasor, and would have damages assessed against him accordingly. If he does not satisfy these damages, he loses the protection of law.

The distinction between civilian and military targets, and the use of violence to influence political outcomes, are non-referential in a society that lacks a political element.

>>16850

>I wish someone could get up an anarchy and send all the anarchists to live in it.

The very fact that you think you can just "[set?] up an anarchy" is evidence that you have no idea what the concept means. Fairly central to the idea of anarchy is that the concept of "an anarchy" (as though it were a collective unit) is nonsensical.

>>16859

>So we're just supposed to lock our door and stay out of his way until he grows out of it or gets killed by someone tougher.

Or you shoot him. With your gun. Which you have. Because you're free.


 No.16867

>>16864

set up an anarchy = institute an anarchy = no government

>Fairly central to the idea of anarchy is that the concept of "an anarchy" (as though it were a collective unit) is nonsensical.

k then


 No.16874

>>16850

>>16867

The commies actually tried that with a portion of land in… Ukraine I believe? It worked so well, they had to put a stop to it almost immediately.


 No.16875

>>16867

>set up an anarchy = institute an anarchy = no government

And how do you plan to actively institute a lack of a thing? That's not how it works.

Anarchy emerges from competing dynamic forces between separate social institutions. It isn't really an anarchy per se, any more than atheism is "a no god(s)"; it just isn't quite the right way to put it.


 No.16881

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>>16864

You do realize the other is going to have a gun too.


 No.16887


 No.16900

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>>16850

>B-but you're wrong!


 No.16901

>>16881

The only thing your argument proves is that you're confused and have no idea what you're talking about. How is having prison sentences in your jurisdiction going to prevent anyone from pulling out a gun and shooting you? Sure, it might deter them, but so will a million other things, like, I don't know, the prospect of being shot first and bleeding out in the street. In fact, criminals being shit at long-term planning means that the possibility of being shot within the next ten minutes will be a much stronger deterrent than the possibility of being jailed within the next six months.

Also, did you ignore the rest of what he said on purpose? No prisons =|= no means of removing violent criminals from society. Especially for the Rothbardians who very much believe in two eyes for an eye, but even the Orthobroians won't have much trouble arranging so many boycotts against hardened criminals they'll have no other choice but to leave, consent to 24/7 surveillance and give away their guns. Oh, and possibly have the contracts with your DRO nullified, so now, the courts will give a shit about you if you do get killed.


 No.16905

>>16881

Yeah, but he'll be outnumbered by his prospective victims. There's no winning that game. Go around picking gunfights and you'll lose one before long.

Plus, as was said before, immediate, high-probability consequences have a stronger disincentive effect than delayed, lower-probability consequences.


 No.16910

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>>16835

>muh one terrorist

what if there are a thousand?

>>16836

>absurd

>unbased

>punishment has to fit the crime

yep, and the guy is a fucking terrorist. Read my post again.

>>16840

>the fuck are you going on about

You'd send them to a church for "rehabilitaion", right?

>muh eveyone is like me

>muh everyone has the same mental viewpoint

>muh terrorists can think

>muh they're all batman

no.

Most of them are complete apes who live to rape and destroy. Only the guy at the top has an agenda, everyone else is just a cog in the machine.

Most of them exist to watch the world burn, and to pursue an ideal, the end of which they neither understand not maintain, while claiming the ends matter but not the means.

>>16864

>muh torting

>muh no distinction necessary maymay

>muh "if you step outside the line, you're dead" mentality

There's a gray area, you know.

>>16901

>muh laws should protect me from errything as soon as it happens

no.

>>16905

>muh imaginary 100 against 1 standoff

>this is what will happen errytime


 No.16913

>>16875

dumbass


 No.16948

>>16910

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

>muh

You're not very clever, are you?

Also not much for reading comprehension.


 No.16956

>>16948

>not refuting anything

>implying onlt autists use maymays

no.


 No.16966

>>16910

>muh one terrorist

>what if there are a thousand?

Reminder that you completely ignored the first paragraph of my post.

If there are a thousand terrorists, then your problem lies not in punishing them, but in neutralizing the threat. Prisons are not preventive measures, and I believe I made this pretty clear.

>yep, and the guy is a fucking terrorist. Read my post again.

The post I replied to made absolutely no mention of terrorists. Feel free to correct me.

>muh laws should protect me from errything as soon as it happens

Okay. Where did I say that?

>muh imaginary 100 against 1 standoff

>this is what will happen errytime

Do you have a fucking idea how hard it is to understand your posts, you fucking retard? I have to read every single damn post you're replying to just to know what you're misrepresenting this time.

Sure, you won't have an army on your side in every shootout. So what? You don't fucking need one! One cornered guy with a gun can fuck you and your buddies up, big time. Even if you outnumber him ten to one, there's still a risk he'll kneecap one of you, which serves as an effective deterrent whether he lives or dies. If this deterrent doesn't work, then yes, you'll likely die, but - again - prisons are fucking repressive measures and don't change shit about that. When someone shoots you in the Peoples Republic of Communistan, you're dead. When the same thing happens in Ancapistan, you're still fucking dead.


 No.16968

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>>16956

Only autists talk exclusively in memes. And as for refuting, fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your sister in law, there's your refutation. You can't even grasp the fucking difference between preventing and punishing crimes, and your reading comprehension is the worst I have ever seen on /liberty/.

>>16910

>Most of them are complete apes who live to rape and destroy. Only the guy at the top has an agenda, everyone else is just a cog in the machine.

>Most of them exist to watch the world burn, and to pursue an ideal, the end of which they neither understand not maintain, while claiming the ends matter but not the means.

That applies to the IS and many african groups, but not to the IRA, Breivik or the Unabomber. Besides, it doesn't contradict the fact that terrorists don't just magically enter the mortal realm to wreck havoc. If you don't consistently fuck shit up for everyone, then fewer people will join terrorist groups. Much, much fewer people.


 No.16969

>>16956

>>not refuting anything

Oh, that's rich, coming from you. I'll try to come out and say it this time, since you didn't pick up on the ever-so-subtle implication last time:

None of your commentary has much to do with the points you seem to think you're addressing.

For instance, you take the fact that those who wish to prey upon others will necessarily be outnumbered by their potential victims in any population, and you dismiss it by reducing the whole question to single encounters and imagining all the badguys facing off against just one goodguy at a time, instead of recognizing that the aggressor's repeated exposure to violence is an extremely poor strategy for survival.

Hell, take what you said under the "muh torting" section: What the hell does that have to do with anything? Really? What does "muh torting" even mean? Are you just laughing off entire fundamental aspects of law that have worked well for thousands of years, because reasons? And where did you get "muh 'if you step outside the line, you're dead' mentality"? How does that emerge from the basic recognition that people who routinely make enemies are increasingly likely to get their shit kicked? How do you get that from the fact that people who consistently demonstrate that they cannot be trusted won't be trusted?

The fact of the matter is that your reasoning is shit, your rhetoric is shit, and you seem to be in way over your head in this conversation.


 No.16974

>>16966

are you retarded?

>>(post 1)

blablablabla (line 1)

blablablabla (line 2)

>>(post 2)

as didnwkowhsndkdndjsi (line 3)

only line 1 and 2 are for post 1.

And, you were talking about self defense and that you could possibly take down and kill a single terrorist, to which I said that that wouldn't be so helpful if there were a thousand. The End. Nothing else in my post concerned you.

>>16968

>Only autists talk exclusively in memes. And as for refuting, fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your sister in law, there's your refutation. You can't even grasp the fucking difference between preventing and punishing crimes, and your reading comprehension is the worst I have ever seen on /liberty/.

laff

>>16969

>None of your commentary has much to do with the points you seem to think you're addressing.

no.

>For instance, you take the fact that those who wish to prey upon others will necessarily be outnumbered by their potential victims in any population,

no.

> and you dismiss it by reducing the whole question to single encounters and imagining all the badguys facing off against just one goodguy at a time, instead of recognizing that the aggressor's repeated exposure to violence is an extremely poor strategy for survival.

His post implied his karate moves would keep away all bad guys. I was telling him that he'd be dead if there were a thousand terrorists.

>Hell, take what you said under the "muh torting" section: What the hell does that have to do with anything?

It's relevant.

>Really?

yes.

>What does "muh torting" even mean?

means you're using a very biased and one-sided and rather rare example to showcase your point, which means the context in which you visualize the problem is small, and might have errors.

>Are you just laughing off entire fundamental aspects of law that have worked well for thousands of years, because reasons?

I don't know if "torting" has been a thing for a long time, but putting all criminals on the same pedestal regardless of the crime is very unjust.

>And where did you get "muh 'if you step outside the line, you're dead' mentality"?

Because there is no distinction between crimes, and performing a "criminal act" takes away your rights, it means that you'd get the same punishment for stealing a napkin that you'd get for killing a thousand people.

>How does that emerge from the basic recognition that people who routinely make enemies are increasingly likely to get their shit kicked?

That doesn't factor into the statement at all, governmental laws are being discussed.

>How do you get that from the fact that people who consistently demonstrate that they cannot be trusted won't be trusted?

same as above

>The fact of the matter is that your reasoning is shit, your rhetoric is shit, and you seem to be in way over your head in this conversation

no.

also,

>muh subtle implications

wat

just say what you want to say, and unless the BO kicks you out you're fine. It's an anoonymoose tahitian-chinese coffee pot discussion board after all.


 No.16978

>>16974

>And, you were talking about self defense and that you could possibly take down and kill a single terrorist, to which I said that that wouldn't be so helpful if there were a thousand. The End. Nothing else in my post concerned you.

He didn't say that, I did. And I didn't say that either, you just have the reading comprehension of a small child. I explicitly talked about guns, for example, at least as far as self-defense is concerned. The bit about me being able to kill someone from the IS was in an entirely different context. Read again:

>>16835

This is what you said:

>What are you going to do with terrorists? Put your hands up? Because if you're averse to imprisoning them, then I doubt you'd kill them.

And this is what I said:

>I can only speak for myself, but I actually believe I could kill an IS-goon myself, with a more or less clear conscience.

Not only was there no mention of doing it with my bare hands, it is also clear from the context that I am talking about my psychological capability to kill someone.

Now, let me reiterate what you're saying here: We need prisons because otherwise, there's no way to deal with situations where thousands of terrorists are ganging up on one innocent person. Now, go ahead and explain to me how imprisoning them after the act is going to save that poor innocent soul.


 No.16979

>>16974

Reminder that on a libertarian board called /liberty/, there's more than one person running around with an ancap-flag. Call the news!

>Because there is no distinction between crimes,

Unbased assumption.

>and performing a "criminal act" takes away your rights,

Unbased assumption.

>it means that you'd get the same punishment for stealing a napkin that you'd get for killing a thousand people.

Based on premises that are unbased assumptions.


 No.16980

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>>16974

Wasn't sure which one to pick.


 No.16991

>>16980

>ancap calling someone else an autists

Hahah– Oh, it's an objectivist.


 No.16994

>>16991

I expected better from objectivists, to be honest. How can you disseminate Rands philosophy from a piece of shit book like Atlas Shrugged and still have zero reading comprehension?


 No.17002

>>16979

That's not an assumption, you literally wrote that.

>>16980

>not countering the points

>>16994

>atlas shrugged

>piece of shit

no.


 No.17025

>>17002

It's literally the worst book ever written. In an educated society it would only cause a suicide epidemic, not a political ideology.


 No.17032

>>17025

Interesing. Atlas Shrugged usually only ever inflicts asspain this intense on leftists, but I assume you're the ancap faggot from before and you just forgot your flag.


 No.17033

>>17032

Nope, he isn't me. I'm me. He is him.

I have read the entirety of Atlas Shrugged. Front to end. It was actually the first libertarian book I ever touched. At the time, I hated it, but now I see that it has its moments of brilliance. That doesn't the prose isn't fucking shit and that Rand isn't a moron for not making her book half as long and twice as concise. This rhymes. Fuck you.


 No.17034

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objectivist flag is a retard

he's the prick who appeals to axioms without ever following them through to their logical consequences

may also be the prick who copy and pastes from aynrandlexion for no reason

not once have I seen the self proclaimed objectivist give an adequate defence of anything without arguing like an 8/pol/ drone

stop being so damn tribal


 No.17039

>>16974

>are you retarded?

>blablablabla (line 1)

>blablablabla (line 2)

>as didnwkowhsndkdndjsi (line 3)

>laff

>no

>no

>It's relevant.

>yes.

>no

>wat

What was that about not refuting things, again?

>His post implied his karate moves would keep away all bad guys.

What part of "eventually, somebody will shoot you" implies that one guy is fighting a thousand terrorists with karate moves? What is this? Gun fu?

>I was telling him that he'd be dead if there were a thousand terrorists.

You're still framing this as a roving band of 1000 terrorists picking on one random person because reasons, and ignoring the part where we're talking about social organization. What part of your scenario seems like a realistic consideration? In what world do you expect 1000 terrorists to get together to pick on one lone undefended guy, then disband to avoid the social reprecussions of being fucking terrorists?

>means you're using a very biased and one-sided and rather rare example to showcase your point

Tort law? Is… biased? One-sided? Rare? Like, what the fuck are you even on about? I mean, that's grammatically coherent, but that sentence is far removed from reality. Tort law is abundant throughout the developed world, and many legal systems in the past were centered around it to the point of having nothing else.

>putting all criminals on the same pedestal regardless of the crime is very unjust.

For fuck's sake, nobody here is talking about the same consequences for every crime. Go re-read what I wrote about that. The fact that they're not a separate class of criminal doesn't mean that stealing a grape gets the same punishment as serial murder. It just means that you don't throw "terrorists" in a separate classification of criminals. They're still responsible for whatever damages they've caused, whether those are multiple deaths or a petty theft. If you are a tortfeasor (one who has harmed another person), then you are responsible for compensating the victim for the harm you have done. No need to create an elaborate taxonomy.

I can't believe I have to explain this.

>Because there is no distinction between crimes

Never said that. See above.

>and performing a "criminal act" takes away your rights,

Never said that, either, and that's not even remotely true. The man attacking you with a knife still has rights; you're just perfectly within yours to use violence up to and including killing him to end that attack.

>governmental laws are being discussed.

Where the hell did you get that impression? It sure as hell wasn't from anything I've said. The immorality and waste of prisons was mentioned, and you responded by asking what we do with terrorists, at which point we started discussing the social dynamics (not the government policy) of stopping "bad guys". You're trying to poke holes in the notion that a roving band of miscreants isn't long for this world by deciding that there are a thousand of them and only one of their victims, and I'm pointing out the utter absurdity of your approach.

Aren't you at least a little bit embarrassed to be trying to criticize things people never said? I mean, your interpretations are flirting with being the opposite of what you're responding to.

>>17002

>That's not an assumption, you literally wrote that.

No; you can't read. I defy you to identify precisely which statements directly indicate the ideas you're attributing to all these guys.

>>17033

To be fair, she was Russian. I'm given to understand that they like long-ass books, and she learned English as a second language. Doesn't make the book any better, obviously, but it does give some context.


 No.17172

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I like the concept of exile, but in a world where every tiny piece of land is the property of some nation it isn't feasible to kick all the criminals into another country. Worked for the Romans, won't work today.

We need the Australian solution. Set up a large tract of land somewhere in the middle of Nowhere, USA that is completely sustainable for a small community. Put some Trump-tier wall around it and mark it a designated shitting anarchy zone. If you're feeling generous, make some rudimentary structures and seed it with materials and knowledge so you have a couple ready-made towns. Give prisoners the option to live out their sentences in New Australia and maybe incentivize it somehow, like 2x "year" modifier for non-life/death sentences. If they survive, they can return. Outside trade/donations will be allowed with New Australia, as long as the items are legal for possession in the US. (I'm still torn on guns being an option.) Film it and sell it as reality TV and/or snuff, depending on how it turns out.

The optimistic view is that the prisoners, after a not-so-brief period of complete tribalism, will begin to work together in some regard. They can steal and kill and proclaim themselves king of New Australia all they want but at the end of the day they need food, water, warmth, shelter, and the like. Slowly they start their rise up the civilizational ladder and trade basic goods for tools, and use those tools to make more plentiful basic goods and advanced goods, and so on. They develop stable communities and give back to the country outside the walls, creating a situation of mutual benefit.

The pessimistic view is that they will never survive the tribal stage and just turn the place into Heart of Darkness. They'll rip each other apart and starve because they're a bunch of dumb motherfuckers with no foresight or survival skills.


 No.17182

>>17172

Why not just build a wall around Detroit and use that? the place is already a shit hole and I am sure half the existing population should be in prison for something anyway.


 No.17185

>>17034

>>17034

It's because objectivism is objectively retarded


 No.17205

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>>17185

>mfw the nazi is right


 No.17209

>>17172

>The pessimistic view is that they will never survive the tribal stage and just turn the place into Heart of Darkness

Or turn into another successful Icelandic community.


 No.17297

>>17182

Now that idea I like. Until Air Force One crashes in the restricted zone and we need to send Snake Plissken to rescue him.


 No.17396

>>17297

How will you do that? There are no more WTC towers to land on.


 No.17424

>>17396

What about all those GM buildings?


 No.17620

>>16815

But I thought ancaps liked privatized prisons. I mean, if the ancap ideology is for privatized courts and police… why not prisons?


 No.17621

>>17172

Well, I believe even prisoners should be guaranteed basic human rights.


 No.17627

I agree, just hang the motherfuckers.


 No.17628

>>16807

Forced labor is an affordable alternative.


 No.17636

>>17620

Private police only enforce the NAP, unless there is a contractual agreement between all parties that they are allowed to do more.

Private courts only settle disputes. Their verdicts aren't even directly enforcable (only through things like boycotts or ruining your credit-rating), according to many ancaps. It's different if you regard retributive justice as part of the natural law, like Rothbard does, but then, you must be able to logically ascertain what the just punishment would be. That could be a mirror punishment, for example: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, that kind of stuff. Unless you locked someone up in your basement, locking you up will almost never mirror your crime.

Again, Rothbards principles here are hardly accepted by all ancaps. In fact, I rarely even see them discussed, and Orthobro, for example, completely rejects them.


 No.17928

Prisons can be seen as negotiating away your life as capital in payment for your crime. All life has value, therefore life can be bartered.

The big change I would make to current legal systems is to allow currency to be directly used to pay for a crime i.e pay the world health organization value of a life if you committed murder. Further, allowing exile gives additional freedom from force if a man cannot pay.


 No.17996

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>US has the highest incarceration rate in the world

>prisions are also a buisness

merely a coincidence

>anacraps btfo


 No.17999

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>>16821

obvious burgerlander is obvious, even without the flag.


 No.18007

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>17039 It's called gun kata you belligerent baboon


 No.18008

>>17999

Answer the question.


 No.18010

>>17996

Most people are incarcerated for victim-less crimes like Marijuana possession.

Also in an AnCap society the funding for prisons would possibly come from things like insurance companies on a cost/risk assessment basis and thats only if the person decides to not settle with the victim via some other means.


 No.18024

>>18010

Tbh fam once individuals start paying for prisons I expect they will disappear and we will have money restitution / debt service / capital punishment / corporal punishment all the way

Prisons a shit


 No.18026

>>17621

Even if they voluntarily surrender those rights on a chance to create a better life than isolation?

>>17996

>all the funding comes from the government to handle the absurd amount of prisoners they incarcerate for minor offenses

>I know capitalism is behind this somehow…

gommies BTFO


 No.18039

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>>18024

>corporal punishment

>capital punishment

but that might hurt the dindus which wouldn't fly with my fellow cool leftist libertarians :3


 No.18086

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>>18039

But according to Machinery of Freedom, it could also be pretty good for the dindus.

If their restitution agency gets payments from the death penalty fags, that means the death penalty fags are subsidizing rights enforcement for the nigs in exchange for the chance to hang one once in a while.

The nigs could also agree to reduced burden of proof to save costs / time and get subsidised further in return.

Of course the leftists will turn this into 'your system hangs dindus without proof'

But I don't think it would that much more expensive to get proper enforcement


 No.18094

>>18026

>all the funding comes from the government to handle the absurd amount of prisoners they incarcerate for minor offenses

>I know capitalism is behind this somehow…

yeah

lobbying is one hell of a drug, its the capitalist favourite :v)


 No.18095

>>18094

just note that if we shitposted on leftypol half as badly as you faggots do here we'd get bannu


 No.18098

>>18095

we make this board come alive :v), otherwise you would only suck eachother off

I agee prisions should not be used to create profit, but sadly capitalist don't, which is why the current system in america is this way


 No.18102

>>18098

There's nothing wrong with private prisons if it does a good job for a low price

But you knew that already


 No.18110

>>18102

Except the fact that they will be owned by people who just want to profit from it that won't do anything to stop the influx of inmates because its basically his property, instead of a workers cooperative made up of people who actually want to help and reform people, whose form of ownership is not based on profiting on an economic point of view via explotiting the guards, cooks, and the population who is incarcerated but by a social profit one, consisting of actually reforming society, not making prisions a living hell in order to promote re-incarceration and so on

But you knew that already, didn't you?


 No.18116

>>18110

If the government was in favour of the kind of reforms you're talking about I'm sure the private sector would provide them

Maybe you don't like the politicians-neither do we- but that's another issue


 No.18123

>>18116

funny because the private sector has pushed for exactly the opposie of those reforms

https://youtu.be/6gVekyXw_mw?t=36s


 No.18125

>>18116

Anyway how is a random idiot prison guard supposed to know what's in the interest of 'social profit'?

Even if he gives a shit (most public sector workers don't) he won't know what to do. I mean should he be firm with prisoners or gentle? Should prisoners be fed plum pudding or humble pie?

There's an argument that says politicians are supposed to figure these things out: given that social profit concerns the whole of society. After all they are the ones accountable to voters and they have best access to information about what works, and what people want

[There's another argument that says a market mechanism can work things out. But I can't be fucked r n]

>>18123

Oh wow how dare they disagree with you about what a good prison should be :/

Campaign finance is overrated anyway. Most of the stuff you don't like is desired organically by the public. They want zero tolerance and always have


 No.18128

>>18125

Btw I didn't watch the video yet


 No.18131

>Oh wow how dare they disagree with you about what a good prison should be :/

Oh wow!, now that you mention it, its indeed very silly of me to belive that guards abusing inmates, or providing poor living conditions to inmates is bad :/

their model soooo much better


 No.18132

>>18131

I doubt anyone is putting out ads that say guards should abuse inmates

Some people do want poor living conditions. Or at least they don't think good living conditions for prisoners should be a government spending priority.

Another thing is it's not always in the interest of people who run private prisons to advocate for worse conditions. If politicians decide to give less money since they aren't asking for as good conditions, that won't necessarily lead to a higher profit margin.

Profit margin is probably formed by cutting costs and improving efficiency without delivering too low a standard and failing criteria set out by the state: regardless of how high those criteria were set


 No.18135

>>18132

I don't, because guards are trained to be hostile towards inmates

people who do not want better living conditions for inmates are dumb and dont understand how better living conditions and a proper reforming systems helps people, pretty much like some people belive tough gun laws lead to a more peaceful society

if prisions are set in a way where people who labour there are training psycologist, sociologists or police officers then the amount of money neede to run them is far lower, its also lower if inmates were forced to grow their own foodcook it, fabricate their own furniture and clothes and even repair the prision themselves,

the average person do not want to spend money on prisions because of the way they are funded and administrated, not because "hurr durr those dumb niggers deserved it" spooky as fuck way of tought

a prision aimed for economic porfit, no matter what way it is administrated or how low the profit is will always be exploitative by nature, because it is their profit to promote the cycle of criminal activity inside and outside the prision so that inmates commit crime again once they are outside, increasing the chances of going inside again


 No.18136

>>18132

I don't, because guards are trained to be hostile towards inmates

people who do not want better living conditions for inmates are dumb and dont understand how better living conditions and a proper reforming systems helps people, pretty much like some people belive tough gun laws lead to a more peaceful society

if prisions are set in a way where people who labour there are training psycologist, sociologists or police officers then the amount of money neede to run them is far lower, its also lower if inmates were forced to grow their own foodcook it, fabricate their own furniture and clothes and even repair the prision themselves,

the average person do not want to spend money on prisions because of the way they are funded and administrated, not because "hurr durr those dumb niggers deserved it" spooky as fuck way of tought

a prision aimed for economic porfit, no matter what way it is administrated or how low the profit is will always be exploitative by nature, because it is their profit to promote the cycle of criminal activity inside and outside the prision so that inmates commit crime again once they are outside, increasing the chances of going inside again


 No.18137

>>18136

>a prision aimed for economic porfit, no matter what way it is administrated or how low the profit is will always be exploitative by nature

This act from the premise that "exploitation", is by definition wrong. Now that's spooky.

>because it is their profit to promote the cycle of criminal activity inside and outside the prision so that inmates commit crime again once they are outside, increasing the chances of going inside again

Conclusion doesn't follow from premise. It is in the financial interest of a doctor that I am sick, this doesn't imply that doctors are all secretly infecting us with diseases to make us come back.


 No.18138

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>18136

>a prision aimed for economic porfit, no matter what way it is administrated or how low the profit is will always be exploitative by nature,

watch vid related, then kill yourself as retribution for exploiting us for links to arguments debunking your bullshit


 No.18141

>>18135

>people who do not want better living conditions for inmates are dumb and dont understand how better living conditions and a proper reforming systems helps people

Or maybe they just don't care about reforming criminals, and would rather see that money flow to people who haven't fucked up. Trust me, I know about how reformation works. When you have a petty robber, someone who constantly gets into bar fights or a pickpocket, then I'm all for helping them function in society. Not so much for serial rapists, kidnappers or murderers.

>pretty much like some people belive tough gun laws lead to a more peaceful society

This was uncalled for.


 No.18143

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>>18138

>since everything is private and no one wants you in their property your only choice is to submit and work inside my property under the conditions that I set

totally not slavery :v)

why is /liberty/ such hypocrites?


 No.18151

>>18143

YOU MEAN I HAVE TO WORK

I CAN'T JUST GET FREE SHIT

DASS SLAVRY

- t. world's first socialist


 No.18153

>>18151

Meh probably out of context but the quote is true


 No.18218

>>18151

YOU MEAN I CANNOT STARVE WORKERS

I CAN'T JUST EXPLOIT THEM

DASS GOMMUNISM

- t. world's first anacrap


 No.18250

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>>18218

The only reason workers would be starved in a free market is that their productivity was too low for any entrepreneur to employ their labor in an effort that would allow the laborer to be self-sufficient, and no one had any compassion for the victim- given the latter part of the premise, said victim would not fare well in any society as no one would vote/seek to create a system of forced charity. Of course, this doesn't address shit like natural disasters/kidnapped and thrown in a basement, but I was addressing "relevantly likely to happen, non-violently, in an industrialized society"


 No.18267

>>18218

No m8 that's me when I look at high wage since lots of investors capitalist society

If there's a big minimum wage I be like

SO THEY THINK LOW WAGE IS EXPLOITATION

THEY RATHER HAVE NO WAGE AT ALL

DASS SO RETARDED


 No.18278

>>18250

>the only reason workers would starve in a free market if that they can't cope up with the explotation


 No.18286

>>18278

Classic leftypol

Does not even read his opponent's arguments before shouting 'exploitation' in an attempt to win by saying exploitation as much as possible




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