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.