• Decoy321@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was just making the joke initially, a contrasting oversimplification.

    But just because they don’t stop all violence, it doesn’t mean they don’t stop any violence. Prisons literally do keep murderers locked up instead of out harming others in the public. Are they flawless systems? Fuck no. There’s all kinds of shit wrong with the systems. But they definitely beat the alternative of having no prisons.