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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by michaelt on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:13AM (#27209821)
The fact some people will do something voluntarily doesn't mean it's ethical to force other people to do it against their will.

Therefore, it's irrelevant whether "regular people do it voluntarily" - because it's the being forced against their will that's the ethical issue here.

One illustrative example of this maxim is prostitution.

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Re:How corporations buy and food made with prison labor by JoeAltmaier on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:13PM (#27223056)
But isn't that deliberately ignoring the fact we're talking about prisoners? Not citizens with full rights? So 'making them do something' is the entire point of the exercise.

Its not advancing the topic to exclaim breathlessly about loss of rights, when that's the point of prison. We could be talking about misaligned incentives or effectiveness etc.

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