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I have a bunch of jumbled thoughts on this... why are we so unforgiving that we focus so much on inflicting pain? 1. Marco Rubio for instance got paid tens of thousands of dollars during 2013-2014 in exchange for a new Florida funded for-profit-prison amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. Paid from taxes, and people still vote for him. We just shrug; "extreme consequences for bad behavior is consent." It's a convenient rationalization to ignore corruption, despite the fact it's literal slavery. It's unconsenting unjustified labor. America is 5% of the world population and yet American prisoners make up ~25% of the entire world's prisoners. There is a problem here, but it's ignored because retribution is pleasuring. This mindset is reflective of three decades ago with Nixon's "War on Drugs," and even further back with our understanding of heaven and hell. 2. When children are young, corporal punishment is seen as acceptable. Extreme me...