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Pash OP wrote

Reply to comment by d4rk in Law and violence ≠ state by Pash

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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