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In reply to the discussion: What is the youngest age at which it should be possible to sentence someone to life without parole? [View all]2naSalit
(87,223 posts)could get beyond our penchant for dehumanizing each other in all facets of life, we could come to some agreement on this. What I'm seeing here with regard to this topic is our taste for dehumanization based on a capitalist system that perpetuates dehumanization for profit... which, I suspect, is the main driver of yet uglier crimes with more regularity as time goes on. We revel in violence and reward it with recognition and praise giving it more credibility than any other mindset... so we have wars on everything.
Until we can get to this sort of approach, we aren't really considering our human potential and how to deal with those who act on the general mindset of rewarded violence and the engineered deterioration of our social contract:
http://www.wimp.com/haldenprison/