Most of a nation on probation?

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

>> Anyone who can be safely paroled, should probably not have been
>> convicted.
>
>I don't see how that follows, but in any case, it is irrelevant to my
>point, that from the individual's point of view, parole is better than
>incarceration.

The difference is that most of the people around here seem to be arguing
from the societal point of view. (Cheap) parole, even if sheer bliss for the
felon, is a bad thing when thought about with due respect to what it does to
whole communities.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy at iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front