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SLAVERY

Prison labor should be avoided because....

   It provides economic motiviation
   for throwing people in jail.                  Gene Wolfe story:
                                                 "How the Whip Came Back"
         ("Hmm.  Gotta get some road work
         done.  You boys get out there
         and arrest some niggers.")

                 There's a similar problem with
                 traffic tickets, where there's
                 an annoying "guilty until
                 proven innocent" attitude.
   
   This may only be a potential problem, 
   because currently the costs of                      
   keeping someone in jail isn't all                                
   that much cheaper than hiring them.     Though this               
                                           could change.
      But it isn't all that unusual     
      for organizations to spend                    
      money in an inefficient way 
      just because it comes out of    (Inside IBM it's said to  
      a different account.            be easier to buy the spare               
                                      parts to assemble a       
                                      computer rather than to   
                                      buy one off the shelf.)   


            Anyway,  to me slavery is something
            too nasty to want to rationalize away
            under any circumstances.


 (Prison Labor = Slave Labor)                                   

                                  (What else might be
                                  comparable as slave
                                  labor?)

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                    Libertarians are big on 
                    restitution, as opposed 
                    to retribution or 
                    rehabilitation.
                    What if the
                    state tries to claim
                    restitution for
                    damages to itself
                    ("society")?


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