Re:Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates
by quacked on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:21AM
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> Isn't the job of the State the betterment of society?
We may have fundamentally opposing ideological ideas here, but I see what you're asking. I would actually say that the job of Society is the betterment of the state. Ultimately it is people in society that create and man their bureaucracies; the government is infused with the skills and morals of the people that form it, and will not exceed those abilities.
I don't think that you could ever form a wing of a government that was capable of rehabilitating people without that wing being fully made up of very intelligent people with good intentions; and if you were able to assemble that group of people, they'd do a better job as a private endeavor (maybe not for profit, perhaps as a non-profit that only pays their salaries, etc.) I do think you could make a form of a government that was capable of keeping prisons far safer than they are now, as that's a much more discrete and amoral task that ensuring that convicted citizens (often low-IQ, often sociopathic, often abused, often with PTSD) are rehabilitated.
We may have fundamentally opposing ideological ideas here, but I see what you're asking. I would actually say that the job of Society is the betterment of the state. Ultimately it is people in society that create and man their bureaucracies; the government is infused with the skills and morals of the people that form it, and will not exceed those abilities.
I don't think that you could ever form a wing of a government that was capable of rehabilitating people without that wing being fully made up of very intelligent people with good intentions; and if you were able to assemble that group of people, they'd do a better job as a private endeavor (maybe not for profit, perhaps as a non-profit that only pays their salaries, etc.) I do think you could make a form of a government that was capable of keeping prisons far safer than they are now, as that's a much more discrete and amoral task that ensuring that convicted citizens (often low-IQ, often sociopathic, often abused, often with PTSD) are rehabilitated.