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Old 08-11-2007, 07:06 PM
Borodog Borodog is offline
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Default Re: Incarceration: Rehabiliate and Protect? Or Punish?

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Economic ostracism has always been a devastatingly effective social punishment. Cutting someone off from the benefits of the division of labor has enormous consequences.

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Not only did you just contradict yourself fully by saying first that justice is about making the victim whole and nothing else,

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Not a all. Credit ratings are a function of the market. A bad credit rating would result from criminal behavior, but it is not any kind of sanction that is mandated by a court, nor does it need to be enforced by anyone.

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but this is an absolutely absurd solution to criminal behavior. Making lawlessness = homelessness helps society how? Really, I would love to hear an explanation.

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By excluding uncivillized individuals from society, the average level of civility necessarily increases. Besides, who said anything about homelessness? It's litteraly impossible to be homeless in a libertarian society, since all property is owned. Homelessness = trespass.



[/ QUOTE ]As for incarceration 'hurting the state and free market' you need to do a little more research. There is a reason why the United States locks down 25% of the people incarcerated *worldwide*. It's because the system is privatized and subsequently became a slave labor racket.

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"Privatized" != private. Privatization is just a tricky way of granting a governent monopoly. Just because the governent creates a "privatized" prison industrial complex does not imply that prisons could exist on the free market, or if the did, that the would operate in the same way. They obviously could not, without government subsidy and monopoly protection.
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