So let us be absolutely clear that where there is human evil in the world, where there is cruelty and torture and deliberate murder, there are biases enshrouding it. Where people of clear sight oppose these biases, the concealed evil fights back.
Funny, I seem to recall some leading anti-bias advocates promoting torture right here on this blog. Apparently one can be comfortably against bias and for torture without losing a moment’s sleep about it.
To be fair, imprisonment-as-punishment does indeed lead towards advocating torture, if you’re avoiding hypocrisy and keeping an open mind. I hadn’t noticed this before, because it’s too abhorrent to have occurred to me as a strategy.
However, I’d wager that imprisonment-as-punishment is the flaw in the argument here. Imprisonment-to-protect-others and imprisonment-as-rehabilitation are far more effective, in my opinion (I haven’t actually looked into this much; it just sounds sensible to me), and I think a lot of people primarily advocate imprisonment-as-punishment because they have a desire for revenge.
To be fair, imprisonment-as-punishment does indeed lead towards advocating torture, if you’re avoiding hypocrisy and keeping an open mind. I hadn’t noticed this before, because it’s too abhorrent to have occurred to me as a strategy.
However, I’d wager that imprisonment-as-punishment is the flaw in the argument here. Imprisonment-to-protect-others and imprisonment-as-rehabilitation are far more effective, in my opinion (I haven’t actually looked into this much; it just sounds sensible to me), and I think a lot of people primarily advocate imprisonment-as-punishment because they have a desire for revenge.
The artist is not the Art. Many an artist will fail, but the Art does not.