I did not intend to be cryptic and I don’t see what any of that has to do with punishment. The proposal is funny stoopid not because it picks a particular approach to incarceration—but because it makes assumptions that are very far away from reality.
It’s like attempting to deal with poverty in Africa by air-dropping an iPad for everyone and going “now that they are plugged into the global information economy, they would rapidly lift themselves to the first-world level”.
I did not intend to be cryptic and I don’t see what any of that has to do with punishment. The proposal is funny stoopid not because it picks a particular approach to incarceration—but because it makes assumptions that are very far away from reality.
It’s like attempting to deal with poverty in Africa by air-dropping an iPad for everyone and going “now that they are plugged into the global information economy, they would rapidly lift themselves to the first-world level”.