Did you know most abusers are in fact victims of abuse themselves? There’s about an 80-90% chance your abuser was in fact abused as a child. So as horrible as your childhood may have been, asking for that to happen to anybody for any reason kinda keeps the abuse cycle in strong form

When you don’t see prison as rehabilitation then it becomes just a cage to house people. We treat animals better than prisoners and we wonder why when they get out, they don’t have any chance of anything but going back.

You have the pure animal right to want the man raped. It’s natural to want somehow who’s done something horrible to you to be tortured, or worse. And of course, if someone assaults your child, everyone would underhand why you’d sincerely want them shot or burned at the stake.

Labeling another person a criminal (or enemy, etc), allows many to take off their mask of civility, and show their willingness to unleash any level of horror onto their fellow humans. This is what they really think of just about everyone. It’s the label that gives them permission to show it.

I don’t think you have to forgive a person in any way, or want to rehabilitate them, to intrinsically understand that there must be hard limits on the mistreatment we inflict on them—or knowingly allow to be inflicted on them, which is the same thing.

I don’t think this makes me wrong. I think it makes you somewhat different from a large percentage of human beings.

I disagree. I think the attitude towards this is 100% culturally created.

Oh, to be sure. The private / commercial prison system is an embarrassing blight on our country.

I do think it’s a universal human trait that only a few overcome.

I get it too. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have those kinds of thoughts about truly despicable criminals. But at the same time, it’s wrong and as long people remember that, whatever knee jerk reaction we may have doesn’t really matter.

To be fair, private prisons have no interest in rehabilitation. The more inmates they have, the more money they make. Some states are pushing their prisons towards rehabilitation, but that’s only a handful.

This has been fascinating to me for quite some time. A huge chunk of Americans—it might well be the majority—do not see prison as rehabilitative. They have no interest in redemption, or change, or personal improvement. They view the people coming out of prison as no better than they were when they went in, no matter…

Absolutely correct, and the way prison rape is practically celebrated is disgusting.

Our society loves to punish. Loves it. Punishment solves every problem. Punishment never fails, it can only be failed. Recidivism? Jail wasn’t punishing enough! Delinquency? These kids have been pampered, they should have been punished. Welfare? Obviously just lazy, poverty isn’t harsh enough, otherwise they’d work.

Yeah those aren’t contractors, and he’s gonna get slapped with a business-ending piece piece of employment litigation by the end of this...sentence.

It’s not hard to have all positive comments when it’s well known that he DELETES negative ones. And trust me, I’m a subscriber to that shitrag. I promise you this, once my subscription is up (because I can’t get my money back even if I cancelled today), I’m jumping to The Athletic where there are real writers. DK can…

yeah, he could actually face some IRS issues here, which could cost him the employer’s share of FICA plus fines and penalties. He was clearly controlling the work and setting the wage, meaning these were not ICs.

He used to venture on the Penguins subreddit every so often, and was typically a pretentious douchebag. I’ve never heard anything good about him. He seems to be as big of an asshole as advertised.

Brown told me that it felt like in the boss’s eyes, “if you weren’t working 16 hours a day, you weren’t doing anything.”

He sounds like a real DK.