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d4rk wrote

In my opinion, we shouldn't. leaving judgement, law & retaliation behind is the key to anarchism. Mercy and Compassion means no prisons, no courts, no police. Evaluate their condition yes, but to punish them for it, in my belief something only G-d can do, we have no authority under Anarchism to punish.

Even destructive behavior can be fine in a social framework[1]. For "capital crimes" such as murder, rape & other crimes, it should be the subject of Mercy, if they keep on doing it, probably lessen the population or if ever we have better healthcare it's fine. But to change them, let them understand their faults and change, is a long process not something that hot heads can deal with. Anarchists are not hot headed people. We love people.

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Pash OP wrote

Mercy is often a principle of justice systems.

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d4rk wrote (edited )

rehabilitation you mean, not mercy.

Mercy is a rare and very unpopular thing that a state exercises. What do you think is the clemency:incarceration ratio in the united states minus the Thanksgiving turkey?

[EDIT: I checked it's 53/2.3M which is 0.0023%]

something that "shouldn't be used often" should be practiced all the time especially under Anarchism.

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Pash OP wrote (edited )

Mercy is a rare and very unpopular thing that a state exercises. What do you think is the clemency:incarceration ratio in the united states minus the Thanksgiving turkey?

The United States?

If I'm understanding right, your argument is "Mercy can't be/won't be/isn't integrated into any justice system because it isn't in the contemporary USA's justice system?"

That's poor inference.

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d4rk wrote (edited )

My Argument would be

  1. Premise: if mercy is forbearance shown especially to an offender.
  2. Premise: if not rehabilitation, which is the process of re-educating and retraining those who commit crime with the goal of re-integrating offenders back into society.
  3. Premise: if Clemency is an act of mercy and incarceration is an act of rehabilitation.
  4. Premise: if the ratio between Clemency and incarceration in the United States is 0.0023%
  5. Conclusion: Therefore, States in general have an institutional interest in preventing or a bias against mercy.
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Pash OP wrote (edited )

The first three points are just standard/common definitions. You're still making the same logical error that you cite a single example (in point 4) and conclude, therefore, in point 5 that it applies to the whole class.

I'd be sympathetic to your conclusion generally, but that doesn't excuse getting there by blatant illogic.

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d4rk wrote

It may have one illogical mistake but the point still stands,

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