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Kasz216 on 25 July 2012
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.



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Player1x3 on 25 July 2012
Jay520 said:
Life in prison obviously. I mean, death has no advantages.

With life in prison, you can still enjoy life through reading, speaking to family, etc. And if you really can't tolerate prison, you could try to escape. You might succeed and become free, or you may fail and die. I'd rather risk death than guarantee death.


Theres also a firm health inspection



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 25 July 2012

As far as I know, our prisons are pretty damn soft, so prison.


I'd probably choose the same if I lived in the US. When you die, that's it.



neptune20 on 25 July 2012

Life in prison... if I'm having a good life.
Death... if my life is shitty.
I don't need to explain myself!



mysticwolf on 25 July 2012

I'd probably want to try out prison first. See if it's really as bad as they say. Then after figuring out that it is, I'd kill myself.



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crissindahouse on 25 July 2012

the problem for me is, some say "maybe it isn't so bad" but if i would get in jail lifetime, i would have done something very bad right? no clue how the prison sytsem works but i don't believe that i would get a place in a nice prison in usa as such a guy. i believe they would put me in a prison with other murderer, gang members and whatever. maybe you would be lucky and would find some you can hang around with in the prison but not sure which guys would do that. other murders and highly criminals?

someone said you still have family visiting you. would i really have family visiting me if i would be a killer?

but the real question is, as much as i would fear to get a place in prison, if i would be a bad killer maybe i wouldn't fear that so much^^ i couldn't really hang around with other murderer but if i would be a killer, maybe i wouldn't have a problem with that and would find some nice lifetime friends in prison lol