Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug offence should be released

Re:Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug off... by aaomidi on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:26PM (#25733402)

> You would trust the state to decide if a sexual predators is safe to teach your children?

I trust the state to test the medicine I buy from a pharmacy. The state isn't some __other__ machine. It's made up of people like you and me, trying to make society operate and people to generally get along with eachother.

If I saw that we as a society are moving towards rehabilitation, and better social services for criminals, then yes. I would trust them. Just like I trust them with roads, with hospitals, with medicine, with food.

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Re:Study: All non-violent criminals jailed on minor drug off... by Chris2048 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:09PM (#25738118)

> I trust the state to test the medicine

How does the process of testing medicine compare to that of sex offenders? I don't think the two are at all comparable.

> It's made up of people like you and me

I'm not qualified to test medicine, or run medical trials, so I hope whoever does it on behalf of the government is not like me.

> I trust them with roads, with hospitals, with medicine, with food

All of which have proven physical-science process to verify them. I don't trust criminology/Phycology as a science capable of making the calls you are implying.

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