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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by ryanlol on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:26AM (#29402738)
He was describing the people working in the prison, right? That sounds like a pretty good description of prison guards.
Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by RickJWagner on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:47PM (#29412342)
Um, no.

Have you ever been around prison guards, rec specialists, medical providers? Some of the best people you'll ever meet. They're working to help others.

Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by ryanlol on Thursday December 02, 2021 @08:59AM (#29416142)
Yes, I have been to prison. In Scandinavia, where the prisons are supposed to be the best in the world.

> prison guards, rec specialists, medical providers? Some of the best people you'll ever meet

Some of them, yeah. There’s always a few people who came to work in prisons to make the world a better place. Most of them? It’s just a job they could get, not a particularly cozy one at that.

Arendt shocked the world by writing about the banality of evil, the nazis weren’t monsters. Instead, they were just boring bureaucrats. Most of them were perfectly nice, ordinary people just following orders.

The prison guards obviously aren’t nazis, but even the nazis seemed like perfectly normal people until you paid very careful attention.