Comments by "Aaron Rosenberg" (@aaronrosenberg6633) on "Леди с пожизненным: Трогательная песня от женщин, отбывающих пожизненный тюремный срок" video.

  1. Azureim Sure they do. I don't condone murder, but being a murderer doesn't necessarily preclude high intelligence. The Unibomber went to Harvard. Murderer Alaric Hunt wrote an award-winning crime novel. The artist Caravaggio killed a man in a fight. Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo killed his wife and her lover.
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  2. Dennis Maeder What do you think they are advocating for, their release? Lifers are still humans. They spend most of their lives behind bars. I'm glad to be reminded of this ugly reality. There's no "mercy"spending life locked up.
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  3. Dennis Maeder "They ask for forgiveness - release from consequence." Do not conflate these two things. Even if they were released from jail, they could never get back the years they lost there. So there is no "release from consequence."   Forgiveness? I've got it in me. You can't know their lives.  But you seem bent on pigeonholing these women and stripping them of any humanity, so hey, have fun with that. Wouldn't want to be you. 
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  4. Dennis Maeder You say that as if it carries any rhetorical weight in context to what I was saying. Let me disavow you of that notion. Get it?
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  5. Luke De Casas Well, there's food for thought there. All things being equal, they wouldn't be given the same respectful audience. But there are circumstances where genius gets respect regardless of the crime. I suppose extraordinary criminality requires an extraordinary mind to earn respect, or something like that. 
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  6. Azureim Not sure how this fits into the discussion of respecting ideas, but in any case, I don't feel a need for their words or ideas to be suppressed. I don't know personally if their punishments fit their crimes. Maybe some are sociopathic. I don't know. But it's sobering just being reminded that people spend almost an entire lifetime locked up.  Being removed from society is the consequence for their crime. I can't imagine how horrible that would be. But I have to wonder how many non-inmates actually hope that these women's lives are as miserable as possible. If anybody hopes for that, they should examine their own lives.
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  7. Azureim I see your point....to a point. But if you read TED's mission (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization), you might find some parallels. 
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