I feel like the appropriate comparison here isn’t between prison and disease, but between prison and alcoholism or obesity. Like, prison isn’t just some scourge that manifests wherever the wrong microorganisms gather. It is a consequence of certain behavior. It falls upon those who sin. It is punishment, and not tragedy.
If you let the bad guys take themselves hostage you have already lost. You can never rescue someone from themselves. When the sufferer and the sinner are one and the same you must close up your ears to the sufferer’s wails, or you will soon find yourself wailing.
I feel like the appropriate comparison here isn’t between prison and disease, but between prison and alcoholism or obesity. Like, prison isn’t just some scourge that manifests wherever the wrong microorganisms gather. It is a consequence of certain behavior. It falls upon those who sin. It is punishment, and not tragedy.
If you let the bad guys take themselves hostage you have already lost. You can never rescue someone from themselves. When the sufferer and the sinner are one and the same you must close up your ears to the sufferer’s wails, or you will soon find yourself wailing.
In that case it may be worth reviewing this post. (I’m sorry to say that the diagram seems to have disappeared.)