You think I’ve been upset by your comments.

once you recognize that punitive is, in point of fact, both intended and actually part of, and the primary goal of, our justice system, your original point no longer actually makes a point.

http://jezebel.com/the-reason-i-d…

I am unaware of any substantive points you’ve made, but you certainly do seem to be getting riled up.

Why, it’s almost as though, after attempting to have an actual conversation with you for several days, repeatedly seeing the worst in you (including yet more written abuse in this very post; you’re a peach and I hope your parents are proud) you have become someone who I regard primarily as a source of amusement.…

If you think mentioning my supervisor was an appeal to authority you’ve clearly never met my supervisor.

Yes, of course you do!

Not for long. Not now that I have me a teacher who charges ten bucks an hour. I’ll race to the front of the class in no time.

No no, I said I have an education in Philosophy of Law because I was asked where I got that idea from and because that was the answer. It wasn’t an appeal to authority. It was, quite literally, a direct answer to an honest question. I know you’ll disagree with that, which is fine, but you’ll be wrong.

Oh, you realized I thought I was kidding.

I was kidding. Sorry, I thought you’d realize.

Taken at face value, that is saying that our justice system is not intended to be punitive at all

Darling. I missed you.

Good, good. We have progressed to interpretations of my tone. Wounded, you say.

Good good. Some very fine nit-pickery to add to your already impressive contribution to the oeuvre. Let’s continue...

Your talent for pedantry is apparently boundless. Now I’ve called you dishonest?

You seem to be retreating into a normative claim now, when that was clearly not your original statement.

I could, if I thought you were someone with a genuine take on this subject who just happens to be misguided. I do not. It seems exponentially more likely that you’re simply some misogynist troll attempting to lay a thin slimelike veneer of credibility to their revolting non-arguments by attempting to co-opt someone…

Sure, and I would probably agree, and would argue that there’s a lot about the nature of prisons, and who is sent to them, that needs to be reformed. However, if we accept that prison is a kind of necessary evil, then we’re implicitly saying it’s an evil we’ve adopted for good reasons. So the first step towards…

And you can stop with the “are we done” routine. As long as you keep posting, I’m going to keep responding.