Tópico: Quais devem ser os objetivos prioritários das punições a criminosos?

[_tiago]

2-3-1

[Moro]

[...] So if we give people an example where we say crime is a virus ravaging the city, they propose that what should be done is we should investigate the root of the problems and we should essentially do things to inoculate the city against further infection, so they say you should improve the education system, or you should work on unemployment. These are very systemic, reform oriented solutions. But if we tell people crime is a beast ravaging the city and give them all the same statistics and numbers as before they now instead say what you need to do is you need to make more jails and you need to put out more police officers and give harsher sentences and more punishment. So they give enforcement and punishment solutions that are more in line with how you would deal with a beast.

And in our studies we found that these metaphors can be surprisingly powerful. So a single word difference in a description of a city's crime problem can lead to a difference in opinion between people that’s at least as big as the difference in opinion between Democrats and Republicans for example in US politics, which is a very big, ecologically big difference. [...]

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/how-language-shapes-thought/4329212#transcript

Ninguém deixar de combater o vírus.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Deixa sim. Direita e esquerda costumam ter visões diferentes sobre as raízes dos problemas sociais e como lidar com elas. Geralmente a esquerda tem uma visão mais intervencionista/preventiva enquanto que direita vê isso como "engenharia social", algo que fere a liberdade, e desnecessário, pois supostamente apenas uma boa economia e iniciativa de instituições sociais (como igrejas) daria conta disso. E prisão daria conta do crime em si.

The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world today. As of 2009, the incarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of national population (0.743%).[2] In comparison, Russia had the second highest, at 577 per 100,000, Canada was 123rd in the world at 117 per 100,000, and China had 120 per 100,000.[2]
While Americans represent about 5 percent of the world's population, nearly one-quarter of the entire world's inmates have been incarcerated in the United States in recent years.[3] Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60.3 billion in budget expenditures.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

[Moro]

No caso estava falando da analogia (que quase nunca ajuda) do virus