Irish soldier walks free after beating woman unconscious and boasting about it on social media
Irish soldier walks free after beating woman unconscious and boasting about it on social media
so disgusted reading this story today. this man got a fully suspended sentence for pleading guilty (when he initially lied to the cops and said she attacked him, and only admitted it when CCTV footage was produced), and because the judge wants to save his precious army career while the victim has lost her job due to her injuries. he also bragged about beating her on snapchat and the reason he did it is because she asked him to stop calling people slurs. i hate it here
I'm not a prison abolitionist
Mob justice isn't a good idea, either. The Cultural Revolution is widely regarded as a bad time.
The solution to [punishment] being full of corruption and targeting the wrong people is totally [more severe punishment] without fixing the other measures!
How would they get in trouble
Killing in retribution for punching is obviously disproportionate. Should we execute Kyle Hayes too?
Prisons are a colonial introduction, as is capital punishment.
Hear me out, gulags?
Nobody is really. I always thought it was a stupid talking point.
It's a decently prominent line of leftist thinking, going at least back to Angela Davis. I agree it's a bad talking point, though. Virtually no one means abolition abolition, so any conversation on the topic immediately gets sidetracked with a semantic debate. It's also silly to re-define what abolition means then use it as a slogan, especially when there's a closely related conversation about how we didn't actually abolish slavery due to the 13th amendment carve-out for prisoners.
I mean, the story illustrates why prison is a bad idea: the judge couldn't serve justice because it would have meant creating bad consequences.