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KY_EnviroGuy

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4. It's a product of a society consumed by making and spending money and...

Tue Dec 22, 2020, 06:20 AM

Dec 2020

a society that is extremely divided. When we hate the "other side", then we're prone to not care if they receive compassionate treatment and fair justice.

It's also exactly where the ultra-wealthy and the retail, entertainment and banking industries want us - divided and unable to organize against anything (note the recent trend toward violent counter-protests at every protest event). Unions are mostly gone and communities hardly exist any more as we knew them in the 50s and 60s.

Divided societies totally consumed by self-interest are glad to have troublesome people locked away and forgotten. I had significant exposure to that phenomena back in the 90s and it in itself is a crime against humanity.

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Are you a country devoid of mercy and forgiveness? [View all] canetoad Dec 2020 OP

Americans think that forgiveness means exoneration for the perpetrator. LSFL Dec 2020 #1

Locked up forever. canetoad Dec 2020 #2

I agree completely with you LSFL Dec 2020 #6

I think this sort of broad brush does nobody any good, My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #3

It's a product of a society consumed by making and spending money and... KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2020 #4

There's a lot of good/productive people in this country we call The U.S. of A. It's unfortunate abqtommy Dec 2020 #5

Forgiveness can only follow repentance. Chainfire Dec 2020 #7

As a cop abolitionist and prison abolitionist, I hear you. A better way is possible. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #8

So where do you live? Australia, I gather. Why group us all together like that? Towlie Dec 2020 #9