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Gram_Stone comments on Open thread, Sep. 21 - Sep. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gram_Stone 26 September 2015 12:27:28AM -1 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Lumifer 26 September 2015 12:38:52AM 0 points [-]

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".