I agree with some of what you say, but I can't accept that everyone in prison in the USA is fundamentally untrustworthy and actually deserves to be there.
The USA has the highest per capita prison population of any country in the world. That either means that Americans are, on average, far nastier people than the citizens of any other country, that the laws in the USA are far harsher than anywhere else, that the American criminal justice system doesn't actually deliver justice by any reasonable standard, or some combination of those things
But Booj. You red blooded Brits solve disagreements with a good punch up. Americans all have firearms which help them with their sexual insecurities (the OP is very insecure). Of course, when tempers flare, people are shot and killed over here. It's the American way, and harsher penalties are required.
It's not so much the people as the system. You have a socialist paradise; we have a capitalist meat grinder. Both systems are fun in different ways.
Fair point about guns, but I think it goes deeper than that. The Puritanical mindset has always been influential in American culture. Americans are taught a sanitised version of the foundations of the American colonies, and the Puritans are depicted as good, Godly people who escaped cruel persecution in England and set up communities in the wilderness where there was religious freedom. In fact, the Puritans were a bunch of intolerant, fanatical nut-jobs (a parallel with the Taliban isn't totally unfair) who punished harshly anyone who didn't conform to community norms and stick to the rules.
Hard not to see a parallel with American cops who pull you over and give you a ticket for having a burned out taillight, Nixon's War on Drugs, and Three Strikes laws, to take three random examples.
I know you're being ironic when you refer to Britain being a socialist paradise, but just to be clear, it's never been that and it certainly isn't currently heading that way. In fact, the bunch of elitist, privileged knobs currently in charge - and especially the delusional, fanatical, Trump-loving, anti-EU fanatics who are driving the Brexit agenda - would very much like to turn the UK into an annex of the USA.
I'm pleased that we're making progress with this issue. Puritanical nut jobs for sure. The remnants of which seem to afflict a certain kind of personality. Just bring up the topic of nude beaches (I'm an American nudist) to the wrong people, and it's 40 lashes plus crucifixion for even mentioning it.
It would be nice to clean up our population by deporting the rubbish like England did in the 1700s, but our constitution was written to make it difficult to do that.
I've never been fond of the puritans! I'm Roman Catholic so I really can't find any reason to be fond of people who would be bigoted against me, and my church. I remember reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in both high school, and college, and just thinking how awful, and stupid the puritans were.
Just a random stream of consciousness thought that I felt like sharing.
I am Puritan. I pray that disillusioned Catholics are spared from the fires of damnation for their beliefs. I know it is likely not appreciated, but some of them are nice people and shouldn't suffer the consequences of the brainwashing they were born into.
That’s why I said idk. What do you want me to say? Most. Even something simple like what almost caused me to be arrested. It was my own fault my cars title was suspended it wasn’t honest of me to drive my car. I didn’t know it was truly suspended but my own fault for not contacting the dmv and checking. It’s my own problem with my own consequences. I had a chance of it being suspended and did nothing.
Isn’t it something illegal and untrustworthy of things that gets you put there? Either way I’m sure many are not so great people. Ever seen what jail people can be like? I’m just trying to warn and look out for this old dude. I’m not trying to get super technical about it I just wanted to get the point across.
Should i be friends with an inmate?
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I agree with some of what you say, but I can't accept that everyone in prison in the USA is fundamentally untrustworthy and actually deserves to be there.
The USA has the highest per capita prison population of any country in the world. That either means that Americans are, on average, far nastier people than the citizens of any other country, that the laws in the USA are far harsher than anywhere else, that the American criminal justice system doesn't actually deliver justice by any reasonable standard, or some combination of those things
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But Booj. You red blooded Brits solve disagreements with a good punch up. Americans all have firearms which help them with their sexual insecurities (the OP is very insecure). Of course, when tempers flare, people are shot and killed over here. It's the American way, and harsher penalties are required.
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Fair point about guns, but I think it goes deeper than that. The Puritanical mindset has always been influential in American culture. Americans are taught a sanitised version of the foundations of the American colonies, and the Puritans are depicted as good, Godly people who escaped cruel persecution in England and set up communities in the wilderness where there was religious freedom. In fact, the Puritans were a bunch of intolerant, fanatical nut-jobs (a parallel with the Taliban isn't totally unfair) who punished harshly anyone who didn't conform to community norms and stick to the rules.
Hard not to see a parallel with American cops who pull you over and give you a ticket for having a burned out taillight, Nixon's War on Drugs, and Three Strikes laws, to take three random examples.
I know you're being ironic when you refer to Britain being a socialist paradise, but just to be clear, it's never been that and it certainly isn't currently heading that way. In fact, the bunch of elitist, privileged knobs currently in charge - and especially the delusional, fanatical, Trump-loving, anti-EU fanatics who are driving the Brexit agenda - would very much like to turn the UK into an annex of the USA.
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I'm pleased that we're making progress with this issue. Puritanical nut jobs for sure. The remnants of which seem to afflict a certain kind of personality. Just bring up the topic of nude beaches (I'm an American nudist) to the wrong people, and it's 40 lashes plus crucifixion for even mentioning it.
It would be nice to clean up our population by deporting the rubbish like England did in the 1700s, but our constitution was written to make it difficult to do that.
I've never been fond of the puritans! I'm Roman Catholic so I really can't find any reason to be fond of people who would be bigoted against me, and my church. I remember reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in both high school, and college, and just thinking how awful, and stupid the puritans were.
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I am Puritan. I pray that disillusioned Catholics are spared from the fires of damnation for their beliefs. I know it is likely not appreciated, but some of them are nice people and shouldn't suffer the consequences of the brainwashing they were born into.
That’s why I said idk. What do you want me to say? Most. Even something simple like what almost caused me to be arrested. It was my own fault my cars title was suspended it wasn’t honest of me to drive my car. I didn’t know it was truly suspended but my own fault for not contacting the dmv and checking. It’s my own problem with my own consequences. I had a chance of it being suspended and did nothing.
Isn’t it something illegal and untrustworthy of things that gets you put there? Either way I’m sure many are not so great people. Ever seen what jail people can be like? I’m just trying to warn and look out for this old dude. I’m not trying to get super technical about it I just wanted to get the point across.