Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "Prison inmate: We get puppies, ice cream and flowers" video.

ProHognes_jr you lose your human rights the second you harm another’s
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stolen shoob say that to the person he raped. Or the family of the one he murdered. Or the torturer’s victims. Or the people killed in a shooting. Prisons are punishment and rehabilitation. Not one or the other. Norway spends a whopping $129 222 (USD) per prisoner in 2018. To put that in perspective, thats more than what two people in the US make in a year combined. To push a system similar to Norway’s, the US will have to quadruple the prison budget, costing taxpayers almost 400 billion dollars a year. No prisoner deserves $120 000 each year to live better than much of the population. There are actually good citizens that would do so much better with that money instead
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@Meggiez1030 you broke the law. Whether or not you think it’s a good law, you still actively broke it. Take responsibility for your actions.
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stolen shoob the us on average spends a little over 30k per prisoner. Some states spend more, some spending less. And if your going to talk about the military budget, you’ve got to know the reasoning. Not only is that money going towards making the worlds most dangerous and powerful military in the world, that money also goes into foreign aid. The us is allied with many many countries, most who rely on US for protection from a aggressor, like Vietnam who’s only defence from China in the South China Sea is the US. I have some great cost saving measures that could easily reduce military funding: Conscription. Volunteer based military’s are more expensive because no ones volunteering to an under equipped military. No more foreign aid. The us is to pull all of its troops and medical personnel out of foreign countries to save money. No more military arms research. We don’t need weapons obviously. Because the rest of the world is completely peaceful and not at all going to threaten the US or it’s allies.
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stolen shoob yes I do. Do you know how much more involved the us is with foreign affairs. The us has military in 51 different countries outside of the US. On top of that it has a number of other allies, such as Taiwan, Iraq, Afghanistan. All of these are to prevent crime. These treaty’s not only help these countries in question, but also helps the US financially and as a global power. It beats being controlled by a totalitarian government like China.
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@augustoalmeida8022 correlation doesn’t equal causation. There’s no such thing as objectivism when comparing a country like Norway to the US.
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@augustoalmeida8022 what about all of the other factors? America is a far more dense, populous country with a lot more ethnic and cultural diversity. I guess you can compare it to a homogenous white European country if you want to, but you are comparing apples to oranges. A better study would be one that compared systems with a similar environment, aka a fair test.
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Gabriele Rando nah. Too much money. Any criminal deserves to just live it out in a concrete box until time is uo
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Fire Bros there’s more to it than that. The problem with the US is size and poverty. Norway is a much richer country with less diversity, and is smaller. It’s it easier to control.
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