What happened to fixing things through conversation?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Ian

There was a time in this world where your punishment for unpopular behavior was to be subjected to a conversation which was meant to expose you to a rational counterpoint to your interpretation of things.

when exactly was this?...just curious

[Ian]

Originally Posted by scottw

when exactly was this?...just curious

That’s what the “reform” in our criminal justice system was supposed to mean.

Cold-cocked punishment alone doesn’t work.

I feel like we used to do a much better job of that before the blast radius for a stupid comment was to all of humanity in 6 seconds + a comments section.
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[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Ian

That’s what the “reform” in our criminal justice system was supposed to mean.

Cold-cocked punishment alone doesn’t work.

I feel like we used to do a much better job of that before the blast radius for a stupid comment was to all of humanity in 6 seconds + a comments section.
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It works better when people sit down and work things out. Yelling over keyboards is not conducive to much.

Certain elements benefit by dividing, not uniting.

[Ian]

Originally Posted by JohnR

It works better when people sit down and work things out. Yelling over keyboards is not conducive to much.

Certain elements benefit by dividing, not uniting.

Yelling is the problem, keyboards only make it easier to get away with it.

As to the elements who benefit, the news right now is the biggest one of them, which is the tragedy in the reality of where we are right now: the narrative (all of them, regardless of perspective) is being controlled, VERY publicly, by people/companies/etc who have no incentive for you to go back to your daily lives.

So if we’re going to adjust/restructure funding for police, maybe we can get a media earmark in that bill too.
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