Categories: just-life
Date: 20 May 2005 15:22:50
Last night Lord.S and I managed to get Kat (a raving Liberal) to start spouting Anarchist philosophies. We had just watched Question Time (having cursing everyone there for not having the balls to say that for the time being nuclear power is the only real option) and started running a Thought Experiment on how to change the prison system to make it more of a deterent, and how to seriously reduce the re-offending rate.
It's real simple, we made the prisons a lot harsher. We lock them up in a single cell, in which all the walls, ceiling and floor are backlit, we give them no sense of time, they are unable to comunicate and basically break them mentally. It would be a prison system in which a week would seem like a month and a month...... well, let's say you wouldn't want to survive it. (or go back.....)
At this point Kat started going on that with re-offending, it happens not because our "criminal" isn't afraid of the sentence, but doesn't think they'll get caught. Which is the beauty of 'Our' system. Becuase we break them mentally we can implant the thought that they will get caught. Someone who leaves our prison will be totally unable to commit a crime. Even pinching a paperclip.......
Because our "Corrections" will take about a month, the prison population will fall, because people would be unable to re-offend the crime rate will fall. Those that have been put away for serious crimes (like that of murder, rape, etc (where it's 100% certain)) can be "Corrected" a bit more strenously. Having broken their bond with Society they will be effectivly removed from Society. When they come out (as they will, after only a few months) they will be provided with menial jobs (such as sewer work and collection of rubbish) of which they would just about still be compenant to do.
"Oh, but that's not fair on the family and friends of the person who's mind you've messed with!!" [**have removed naughty language**]
And it's not, that's correct. But it's not the State's fault, no, it's the fault of the Criminal when they broke the bond with Society. Not only do they get punished, but so do those around them, so don't do it. And in the case of things like theft and the like, all we'd be doing is removing the choice to commit a crime, everything else will still be there.
"But you're making a society where the point of not doing a crime is fear......"
Yes, like it is now. The two reasons (for example) I don't stab Kat to death with a spoon is;
1)I'm not a murderer and want to kill her,
2)I'm afraid of the consequenses and don't want to go to prison.
So even if she gave me expresse permission to stab her to death (to curcumvent option 1)) there's still option 2). It's still a society of fear.
Good, upstanding people who aren't going to commit any crime that would have them sent to prison have nothing to fear. Those that would commit such a crime, well, once they've been caught, they won't be doing it again.........
"But it's illegal......"
This is our country that we're running, we get to say what is illegal.... so it's not!!!
"It's the removal of free will, God wouldn't approve....."
[Tut tut, silly Kat......... you should know you can argue anything using the Bible!!!]
Afterall, does Jesus not tell us that we should obay the laws of the land we're in....??? If you want to take the argument that it is decided before someone is born if they are going to be saved (pre-desination) then you can argue that God Himself has removed the option of free-will from a person..... as they would be unable of doing anything that would take them away from God.......
Thankfully, all of this was a 'Thought Experiment' loosly based on the Ministry of Love (see Orson Well's - 1984)so no worries all of you out there, settle back and enjoy your weekend..... afterall, Big Brother isn't really watching you...... honest.........
Then we watched The Dam Busters, because it's a brilliant film!!!!