It’s not a question of empathy, it’s whether you’re capable of seeing a bigger picture.
You think you’d have nearly so many hopeless, maladjusted dregs floating around in a country that isn’t at war with the poor? A country that doesn’t do everything it can to corrode communities, foster ignorance, promote belligerence, withhold medical and psychological care, and then take the unfortunate output of all that mistreatment and neglect, and pump it into the misery factories you call a penal system?
This shit is bigger than mere individuals. It’s systemic, and your sort of self-righteous individualism is a fucking cornerstone of that malignant edifice, epitomised by talkback radio douchebags and private prison industry lobbyists.
I’m not the one who needs to get a grip; I know the correct direction to punch is up, not down.
