Yeah, I was pretty bothered a couple years ago when we were doing the “kids in cages” news cycle, and the red tribe people kept saying stuff along the lines of, “it’s good that our policy is unpleasant, because it’s a deterrent against future infractions”.
Any degree of cruelty can be (correctly!) framed as a deterrent. So in general we should be really wary of those kinds of policies.
Yeah, I was pretty bothered a couple years ago when we were doing the “kids in cages” news cycle, and the red tribe people kept saying stuff along the lines of, “it’s good that our policy is unpleasant, because it’s a deterrent against future infractions”.
Any degree of cruelty can be (correctly!) framed as a deterrent. So in general we should be really wary of those kinds of policies.