>>64001119Rehabilitation is a futile, wide-eyed, and ultimately luxury goal/waste of time to pursue. It’s more mathematical. The gun to your head (the law) exists to augment your internal calculus to produce more pro-social behavior compatible with society by coupling death/imprisonment to otherwise self-serving but destructive behavior. That’s all. The main point of prison is that it sucks and you don’t want to go there so you don’t do things that land you there. Like, neither you nor I have ever robbed a bank, though we like money. Is this cause we’re great, properly socialized guys with a strong moral compass? Nah, we just don’t like prison/rape/getting shot. That’s the forcing function in all this.
Unless what is meant by “rehabilitation” is showing someone first hand, through a prison sentence, that prison is real and the conditions inside suck, because somehow they hadn’t gathered all this before and had doubts about it all. Well after like 5 years in prison or whatever, you’re probably not gonna repeat the things that land you there. I’d call this deterrence for the initially doubtful, or the very low IQ who could not conceive of what prison is. Calling this “rehabilitation” is kind of like saying it’s an “attitude adjustment” meaning “I threatened to kill him and now he’s much more amicable.”
>>63999469The memes are NOT true… I’m bald and I don’t own an LMT.