Today I’m introducing a groundbreaking bill - the National Strategy for Social Connection Act.
It creates a federal office to combat the growing epidemic of American loneliness, develops anti-loneliness strategies, and fosters best practices to promote social connection.
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Cheaper than paying police and paying staff to clean up the buses and paying insurance and inconvenience for all the petty break-ins and smashed car windows.
It would be cheaper to just work all the criminals until they pay off their damages
Right, first pick a crime that is disproportionately enforced towards one minority, then make them do forced unpaid labor as a condition of their sentences.
The extra steps don’t change what that sounds like.
So we shouldn’t go after criminals because you think it looks bad?
We shouldn’t be using slave labor just because you fantasize about it.
We can’t get them to comply with relatively basic requests like “don’t block sidewalks”, what makes you think you’d be able to force them to do useful work? Overseers with whips cost money, how do you expect to do it cheaply enough to turn a profit and pay off damages?
A guy on a car walk with an m16 can oversee a lot of people at once.
And does this guy shoot them if they sit down and refuse to work?
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Do you support murdering people you don’t like in all contexts, or just if you can’t extract labor from them at gunpoint?
If you could be bothered to notice that this is a conversation about a specific topic, you wouldn’t need to ask disingenuous questions
I think it’s a sincere question. Your comments so far have suggested that you support the idea that execution is an acceptable punishment for people who abuse drugs and then disobey orders from authority. I believe it’s fair to question whether there are lower levels of nuisance that you also believe the death penalty should apply to.
As for the argument as a whole, taking into consideration the cost of training and wages for the prison guards/riflemen/executioners necessary to employ this scheme and the logistical cost of moving these incarcerated laborers to potential work sites, as well as the low quality of the labor they could provide while going through withdrawals, I still think the $10 per day would be cheaper.
I’m asking about your barbaric suggestion for punishment for people unfortunate enough to be targeted by selective drug enforcement. Your suggestion is forced labor at gunpoint.
I asked questions about just how barbaric you were willing to take this. I got my answer.
You’re willing to enslave and murder people for being addicted.
Not profitably.