Premise: if mercy is forbearance shown especially to an offender.
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.
Premise: if Clemency is an act of mercy and incarceration is an act of rehabilitation.
Premise: if the ratio between Clemency and incarceration in the United States is 0.0023%
Conclusion: Therefore, States in general have an institutional interest in preventing or a bias against 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.
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.
leech (noun) greater than the property value. noun denoting the determinant object which determines property value, is what I think u/ziq was heading at.
Gorgias was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists, he was an itinerant that practiced in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. A special feature of his displays was to ask miscellaneous questions from the audience and give impromptu replies.
It defines it. Society is defined by internal culture war which maintains a balance of views defined by it's own terms. To win would mean hegemony, to loose would mean extinction.
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Reply to A free Central Bank account for all would be a good start for a revamped monetary system by kin
Not only is this a monopoly, it's unethical to have one central bank for all because money could easily be manipulated.