
So we are # 1, as an anonymous poster who writes like Mavengloiven pointed out.
And I've fallen off the wagon. I had to put this image up.
The thing I was trying to get across in my previous blog didn't coime across as clearly as I had hoped.
If prison and the death penalty are for discouraging crime, we should have a very low crime rate. We don't.
If prison and the death penalty are retribution, meted out in proportion to the transgression, the countries with the highest incarceration rates woudl do the most to restrict individual behavior. Thats not us.
So the best I can come up with is that their is a fair amount of injustice in our country, and that our criminality and incarceration rates reflect the gap between the common myth of America and the reality as experienced by the 80% who earn 15% of our GDP.