There’s a fair amount of us that are against punitive/retributive justice as a rule actually. Whenever I post about it I get a fair number of upbears so I assume I’m not alone.
just get prison
Wait till you find out most of us are prison abolitionists as well lol.
As long as we keep people like musk under tight surveillance so they don’t get up to any counter-revolutionary shit they wouldn’t be dangerous after we take their stuff. We might have to spread them out over long distances and confine them to rural areas to make it hard to do conspiracies, but there are ways to keep them in check while allowing them a degree of freedom and dignity (which, let me be clear, they do not deserve. It’s not for them, it’s for us)
Restorative justice is good, but it’s not without flaws. One of the big flaws is what happens if the person who committed the crime does not want to engage in restorative justice.
What if they maintain their innocence, and are actually innocent? Sounds like you need a trial, but what do you do if they don’t want to bother with one?
What if they maintain their innocence even though they are found guilty, and actually are?
What if they admit to doing it but say they’d do it again?
What I’m getting at is that you need a backstop to make people engage with your justice system if they don’t want to voluntarily.
One other significant issue with restorative justice is that society might want a different outcome than what the victim of a crime might be satisfied with. Think of a case where a person is threatened with a gun. The victim is satisfied with moving on after an apology, but what if the community doesn’t want the first guy to have a gun anymore?
He will be a waste reprocessing worker third class in the Provisional Martian Worker’s Republic. He will be paid a comfortable living wage and proper benefits. He will sleep in the pod, he will eat the algae, and he will be happy.
I mean prison abolition doesnt mean we dont still have places where we put the most extreme cases of people who cant be rehabilitated and are a danger to society if allowed to exist in it. They just wouldnt function like prisons as we know them.
Then again the USSR did do Gulags so I’m not going to weep over Elon if he’s executed or work camp’d I’m just I’m personally against retributive justice in nearly all cases and would advocate for a justice system that isnt retributive post-revolution.
If it makes you feel any better I’m sure Elon doesnt survive the process of revolution anyway :)
Yeah, the question of what to do with people who truly cannot play nice in society is one I’m still learning about re: restorative justice and prison abolition. There are a small number of people who are just irrepairably anti-social and I’m not sure how you’d deal with them. Sending them to a rural area or colony where their movements can be tightly monitored while allowing them some degree of freedom within an assigned area is the best I can come up with.
In Iain Banks The Culture, iirc, people who commit serious crimes are assigned a drone that follows them around for the rest of their lives. They’re allowed to go anywhere, do whatever, but if they try to do something anti-social the drone will incapacitate them. That’s as close as they have to a prison system.
I think there’s a significant contradiction between prison abolition and running any sort of state, especially a post-revolutionary one where reaction is inevitable.
To paraphrase , the day after the revolution, are we suddenly going to treat the fascists with kid gloves? Will they be allowed to go back to what they are doing now and we can’t even arrest them?
There’s a fair amount of us that are against punitive/retributive justice as a rule actually. Whenever I post about it I get a fair number of upbears so I assume I’m not alone.
Wait till you find out most of us are prison abolitionists as well lol.
Restorative justice is cool and good!
As long as we keep people like musk under tight surveillance so they don’t get up to any counter-revolutionary shit they wouldn’t be dangerous after we take their stuff. We might have to spread them out over long distances and confine them to rural areas to make it hard to do conspiracies, but there are ways to keep them in check while allowing them a degree of freedom and dignity (which, let me be clear, they do not deserve. It’s not for them, it’s for us)
Thanks for always being my pal on this issue Frank!
Restorative justice is good, but it’s not without flaws. One of the big flaws is what happens if the person who committed the crime does not want to engage in restorative justice.
What I’m getting at is that you need a backstop to make people engage with your justice system if they don’t want to voluntarily.
One other significant issue with restorative justice is that society might want a different outcome than what the victim of a crime might be satisfied with. Think of a case where a person is threatened with a gun. The victim is satisfied with moving on after an apology, but what if the community doesn’t want the first guy to have a gun anymore?
Where are we putting Elon then
He will be a waste reprocessing worker third class in the Provisional Martian Worker’s Republic. He will be paid a comfortable living wage and proper benefits. He will sleep in the pod, he will eat the algae, and he will be happy.
I mean prison abolition doesnt mean we dont still have places where we put the most extreme cases of people who cant be rehabilitated and are a danger to society if allowed to exist in it. They just wouldnt function like prisons as we know them.
Then again the USSR did do Gulags so
I’m not going to weep over Elon if he’s executed or work camp’d I’m just I’m personally against retributive justice in nearly all cases and would advocate for a justice system that isnt retributive post-revolution.
If it makes you feel any better I’m sure Elon doesnt survive the process of revolution anyway :)
Yeah, the question of what to do with people who truly cannot play nice in society is one I’m still learning about re: restorative justice and prison abolition. There are a small number of people who are just irrepairably anti-social and I’m not sure how you’d deal with them. Sending them to a rural area or colony where their movements can be tightly monitored while allowing them some degree of freedom within an assigned area is the best I can come up with.
In Iain Banks The Culture, iirc, people who commit serious crimes are assigned a drone that follows them around for the rest of their lives. They’re allowed to go anywhere, do whatever, but if they try to do something anti-social the drone will incapacitate them. That’s as close as they have to a prison system.
I think there’s a significant contradiction between prison abolition and running any sort of state, especially a post-revolutionary one where reaction is inevitable.
To paraphrase
, the day after the revolution, are we suddenly going to treat the fascists with kid gloves? Will they be allowed to go back to what they are doing now and we can’t even arrest them?