Sure. I agree.
--- On Thu, 5/21/09, Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael McIntyre <morbidsymptoms at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Irish priests beat, raped children
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 8:45 AM
> Of course not. There are two
> conclusions:
> (1) We shouldn't let a debate about whether prisons would
> still need to
> exist in a just society distract us from what prisons do in
> an unjust
> society.
> (2) Pointing to monsters as a justification for prisons is
> inapt, because
> (a) the "monsters" we find are sometimes the victims of a
> moral panic that
> throws elementary standards of justice to the winds, and
> (b) real "monsters"
> who enjoy high social status can often continue to act
> monstrously for
> decades, systemically as well as individually, with nothing
> done to stop
> them.
> MM
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>