Which government?

Can you show evidence of the government’s employees blaming SJW overreach for the decline of Dragon Age and Mass Effect?

Calm down.

You can tolerate people saying things you don’t like without throwing a temper-tantrum every time.

So, you see one post and use that as an excuse to say you’re seeing it constantly?

Lol. Can you show me where else I can find people saying this on lemmy?

Where are you seeing these people?

I said to keep the prisons open until we replace them. That necessarily means we aren’t imprisoning people for life, because the prisons will close.

Sure. If we happen to migrate to this fabled society of yours where prisons aren’t necessary before people currently in prison die. But until we reach your fantasy, (which could be a LONG time) you admit that “you think it’s okay to imprison people for life even with the possibility that they are innocent.”

We just hold them for the length of time it takes to replace the prisons with schools and hospitals.

All the schools and hospitals in the world aren’t going to stop people from harming each other. Get it?

Also I don’t know where you got the idea that I actually support life imprisonment? I only said it’s better than the death penalty.

Oh my god, we’re just going in circles now. Re-read my previous comment for why you’re incorrect.

I’m going to have to ignore you now because I’ve said everything I needed to say and you’re just proving me right again and again. You know your argument is weak, so you’re afraid to stand by it. You keep pivoting to something else to obscure the fact that you’re wrong.

You may need to work on your reading comprehension, too. I suggest taking a remedial English course at your local community college.

Thanks for showing me that people like you don’t actually have a leg to stand on when saying the death penalty should be abolished. You’re living in a fairy world while pretending it’s reality. It makes sense that you’d think “schools and hospitals” could replace prisons, lol. How many schools? How many hospitals? You know people still commit crimes when going to nice schools and having access to nice hospitals, right? Lol.

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Well I literally said we can keep the prisons open

So… we go all the way back to my previous point where I said you think it’s okay to imprison people for life even with the possibility that they are innocent.

Also, we can definitely redefine what a “crime” even is; so many people are locked up that don’t need to be.

Stay on topic.

To be clear, since you don’t seem to understand what I’m saying

No, I understand exactly what you’re saying. You know it’s stupid to argue “the death penalty isn’t ok because sometimes people are innocent” while saying “but it’s okay to lock them up for life even though sometimes they’re innocent.” Instead of owning your incorrect stance, you try to pivot and derail to something else to avoid admitting you’re wrong.

Do you see how difficult it was for you to admit it’s necessary to lock people up? That’s because you knew you were wrong, but tried throwing as much shit at the wall to see if you could get away with it.

I’m sorry that I keep repeating myself

Lol, me too! I have to keep repeating myself because you don’t want to admit when you’re wrong. So you just keep saying the same thing in slightly different ways or throwing in distractions thinking it’s going to get you different results.

You didn’t really answer my question.

By instead, I meant instead of sending people for prison (possibly for life.)

“Reducing the prison population” still involves sending people to prison, possibly for life. What should we be doing instead of sending people to prison before we live in a society where people don’t commit crimes worthy of incarceration?

I’m sorry I have to be so specific with you, it feels like I’m talking to a genie lol.

What should we be doing instead of sending people to prison until we have the society you envision?

You’re the one arguing we shouldn’t imprison people for life.

Wrong. I’m arguing that by your “logic,” the reasons you give against the death penalty are also applicable to life in prison. Therefore, you shouldn’t be saying one is okay but not the other, which is what you were doing.

I was saying it’s better than the death penalty, not that it’s okay.

Good, I’m glad you can at least be direct about it now. What should we be doing instead?