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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Well I am, but thats beside the point. The answer is not actually obvious to me, so you have to do better than that.
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Well, given my obviously liberal opinions, it should be obvious why
I feel that chaining prisoners up is inhumane
Inhumane - lacking pity or compassion.
I do feel pity for criminals, that's not pity for them because they have been caught and punished but pity for the fact that they either felt a crime was necessary or that they thought it was okay to commit a crime (that's my thoughts on what is a crime and what isn't, which isn't the same as that stated by law). It is my belief that chaining people up lacks compassion and to reiterate what I said earlier, if you treat people without compassion and more like animals, you damage the rehabilatory aspects of punishment...if you treat people like animals, they are more likely to behave like animals.