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I would advocate for extending the sentences for female felons to match the rate of male felons. There is not much a reason to do so otherwise than the sexist notion that women are incapable of being as conscious of their actions as men. I would not further advocate for undoing the "separate-but-equal" penal system of having separate women's prisons because I don't think incarcerating polar body types is a good idea. I suppose if there was a system that properly vetted an incarcarated person's weight to match their cellmate similar to wrestling I would support it, otherwise, putting someone obviously heavier than someone else inside a room is a recipe for wasting the prison guard's time.
I don't mind continuing I just have to move from my phone to my computer because I do a majority of this on my tiny little phone screen while squatting in the shower like a toad to pass the time until I can get out so I've got about as much bandwidth as that medium allows. I don't mind the questions; people are just curious and it's not every day a bonafide thoroughbred blue blood liberal feminist technically-nonbinary Democrat comes around here. I'm sure I represent the boogeyman they've always wanted to debate as much as they represent the boogeyman that haunts my nightmares lol.
See I think "feminism" means so many different things to people who don't want to be feminist but sure don't want to deal with the consequences of it. Same of Christianity; there are lots and lots and lots of people who are not Christians who try to convince others and themselves they are because, well, otherwise they would be in moral trouble. Imo it's the duty of actual Christians to remind everyone what constitutes, and more importantly, what doesn't constitute that; otherwise words and meanings are lost to manipulation and then nobody knows what the hell they're talking about.
Roundabouting to incarceration; I do not support unequal sentences for women or men. Let's jump together Mr. Rabbit.
Thanks for your willingness to continue our discussion, and also for being a good sport about other people here pushing back! It's also fine to reply when you're good-and-ready, this is more like chess-by-mail than a real-time conversation, which has the advantage that one can stop, think, and look stuff up.
Let's examine the extend-female-sentencing idea: what conditions would you allow to take into account, to ensure that both a male and a female convicted of the same crime receive the same sentence? The penalties for most felonies have room for judicial discretion. Judges tend to consider questions like: "How likely is this person to break the law in a major way, once they get out?"
This goes to the root of the question: why are we incarcerating people, anyway? The modern consensus is that the goal is to reduce crime, and that the judicial system of incarceration does it through deterrence and incapacitation.
Do you agree with the idea that those who are unlikely to re-offend should spend less time in prison than those who are likely to re-offend?
Having dependents, for example, correlates with a lower chance of re-offending. Would you allow for taking into consideration whether the felon has children or aging parents that depend on them before passing a sentence?
By the way, I appreciate the thought of sorting prisoners by weight class, kind of like how they do in wrestling. My niece and nephews wrestle, so I have been to a few competitions. I therefore notice how extremely rare it is for a female to win a match, when paired against a male, even though they are in the same category. (It does happen; we have some girls in the wrestling club with excellent technique.) I remain utterly unsurprised by this. I am healthy, physically fit, and have a black belt in a martial art, yet I am under no delusion that I could take an average 150-pound man.
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