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I am concerned about the costs. He is just one guy, but when you look at the costs of all this excessive imprisonment throughout the US criminal justice system it ends up being hundred of billions of dollars.

Good point. To use another example though, Australians often criticize people for things like being poor, living in housing commission, living in the western suburbs or being bogan. Often this is largely beyond people's control, or completely beyond their control in the case of children who are...

Yes god forbid we look objectively at the costs and benefits. Much better to use an ambiguous word like "justice" which is basically just a way of disguising our own opinions and feelings.

The point of the thread was not to ask that question since its a meaningless question anyway; what does "that bad" even mean? It was just a thread title. My main point is mentioned above.

My point is that while it is stupid, society tolerates lots of stupid opinions, but people react disproportionately badly towards stupid opinions that happen to be racist.

Luckily it can be cheaply and easily removed. The estimated value of the damage was only $7500, yet they are going to spend around $30 000 a year to lock him up when they could have just made him clean up the mess he made. Sense? It makes none.

Sure its stupid. But people seem to act like its the worst thing in the world. In my view its no more irrational than believing on god, or thinking that we should persecute people because they engage in prostitution or enjoy ingesting particular chemicals. For some reason it is socially...

Slavery is already legal: Internal Revenue Service

They are both shit. What else can you say? If you want to continue the minarchism v ancap debate....... http://community.boredofstudies.org/4906009/post-187.html

Injuries would decrease massively. The government should also make cancer illegal.

Not going to do another post about how crazy this is, its seems we can all agree. I'm curious as to what labor think it will achieve by doing this. It has been hugely unpopular with business and the electorate at large. It is expensive and it won't work anyway. Sure Conroy may be a cunt...

If Rudd is serious about harm minimization he should ban all alcohol. People of all ages abuse alcohol and it contributes to many avoidable road deaths. It also causes public health problems and violence and is more dangerous than most illegal drugs. Considering how high the road toll...

If you wanted to control the land around you, you should have bought it. You have no right to control what is built on other people's property. I'm surprised to see a conservative like yourself supporting collectivist control over other people's property. Even if high density development is...

Nonsense. Just look on google maps. The whole area west of liverpool extending all the way to warragamba is currently used as farm land, or is just sparsely populated, most of it could be developed.

Immigrants are not to blame for high housing prices; the government is. First of all there is plenty of land on the outskirts of Sydney that could be developed but the government doesn't allow it. Secondly there is so much potential for urban consolidation in Australian cities. Without even...

williamc is right. Girls don't ask guys out, but they do give signs that they want to be asked out using flirting, body language, eye contact and finding excuses to touch you. One time a girl was talking to me non-stop about sex, and how she hadn't had sex for ages because she broke up with...

These families are not slaves, and the reason they have traveled to New Delhi is because they can make more there than they can working in subsistence agriculture. These children were almost certainly already working just as hard in the rural shitholes they came from. I'm not saying its...

Yes, that was very much my point.

Exactly, whether you have states or private security firms, the cost of maintaining a desired ratio of military hardware to people/resources is going to be a about the same. He's so clever, he's just messing with us stupid dogmatic libertarians. He won't waste the wear on his keyboard...