oppose_obama wrote:I do not plan on going to prison. I plan on either sending alot of people to prison or defending a lot of people from going to prison. If I somehow ended up going to prison I'd know I was fucked. Similiar to getting diagnosed with terminal cancer.
I believe a state is founded and based on force and violence. Is that evil? Depends. When I have to pay my taxes I'm not happy, when the state subsidizes my loans and the rule of law is my business, it's good.
The utility of prison, from my point of view, is to keep undesirables out of society.
Nobody plans on going to prison.....
I agree that the State is founded and based on force and violence. If it has any utility at all in the scheme of things, it is to restrain the greed of all within it's grasp, in order that all may satisfy
some of their urges. Without the State, most persons would likely exterminate each other within a matter of days, if not hours.
But overall, it is evil, and that's from a societal viewpoint, the good of all versus tyrants and parasites of fortune who render power 'just', because they've failed to make the just powerful.
I would say that Prison has the utility to the State (not Society) of removing those undesirables who don't quite fit the heirarchical order, or who form an alternate State; legal bandits versus illegal ones, who defy the State's monopoly on force and violence.