• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    American prisons ARE meant for torture. Don’t get it twisted.

    If they were for rehabilitation or treatment, then we would see to that, societally. But we don’t.

    This is a small piece of why our justice system is so absolutely fucked.

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      1 year ago

      i think you’re responding to a normative statement by making a descriptive statement.

      for those unaware, here’s a quick explanation from wikipedia: a normative statement is “meant to talk about the world as it should be”, while a descriptive statement is “meant to describe the world as it is”.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      American prisons ARE meant for torture. Don’t get it twisted.

      naw. not really. Prisons are meant to provide cheap domestic labor to the corporations running them. it’s all profits.