Would you rather get life in prison or the Death sentence?

[Kasz216]

Aielyn said:

Kasz216 said:
I think that has less to do with their prisons and more to do with their culture.

Culture, it's the one thing EVERYBODY seems to ignore when comparing countries and trying to figure out what policys work best... yet it's the one facet of our lives that has a serious noticeable effect on everything from crime rates, to how long you'll live naturally to productions levels, unemployment, corruption...

You don't seem to have made a point on the other side of that observation... WHY is there such a culture difference that makes America seemingly much worse for crime, for guns, for unemployment, for economic instablity, for corruption, etc? Arguing culture is a convenient way to basically go "other countries that have solved the problem aren't relevant, because our culture is different".

Culture is something that takes hundreds of years to develop and changes as an extremely slow pace.

The factors leading to this happened long before we actually had prisons on such a scale.

I suggest reading chapter six of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.  It's a pretty simple, easy to undestand thing that should explain things fairly eaisly.