>I am serious as a heart attack. You're arguing about personal
>responsibility and accepting without question that people in prison
>are there only because they committed crimes. This ignores 30 years
>of relentless increases in severity of penalties, prosecutorial
>power, and the number of acts that can land you in prison for a long
>time.
Don't forget Charles Murray's argument: while crime may be down, criminality is up. We know that, because the prison population keeps increasing.
Doug