• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I think they are being a little unserious. Maybe they’re in a mood or something. I don’t think this approach would increase hatred except to the state, but you would also literally have most of society in prison, so . . .

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      the more serious answer is that you suspend the sentences for minor offenders and attempt to rehabilitate them. repeat offenders need to be separated from society with more intensive reeducation. but the threat needs to be there to prevent them from organizing against the state by stoking latent bigotries.