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This isn't far off from how Nordic prisons work. And they have amazing crime statistics.
This is VERY far from Nordic prisons.
For example, note that the proposal puts everyone into permanent solitary confinement and assumes that playing a MMORG in VR glasses is sufficient to satisfy all needs for human interaction.
Given this:
it seemed like you were scoffing at not punishing prisoners as opposed to scoffing at the VR; that's what I was addressing.
I was scoffing at the OP's map being hilariously far away from territory -- in more than one aspect.
That seems unnecessarily cryptic. Are you really a retributive justice kind of guy? Do you really think punishment is the way to go? How do you fit the Nordic example into your map?
I did not intend to be cryptic and I don't see what any of that has to do with punishment. The proposal is funny stoopid not because it picks a particular approach to incarceration -- but because it makes assumptions that are very far away from reality.
It's like attempting to deal with poverty in Africa by air-dropping an iPad for everyone and going "now that they are plugged into the global information economy, they would rapidly lift themselves to the first-world level".