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Yes, it is. And responsibility is the opportunity to fail to live up to that responsibility, and then what?
I get you: tell yourself they're "just animals" so you can cage them without a guilty conscious.
There are a lot of flaws in the U.S. foundational documents, but "Life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness for all" is a concept I think worth defending.
Actually, no. Quite the opposite. Treat them like people who have chosen to abrogate their responsibility as humans in order to fulfill animal impulses. I'm definitely not okay with putting people in cages. Irresponsible or not, they're still people.
Great, so these people who you're not okay with putting in cages, the ones that go out and kill other people (for drama's sake), or just really grief society with constant home burglaries, maybe some drug addictions driving that, maybe assaulting people to avoid arrest, maybe "accidentally" killing someone with that gun they use to threaten the cashiers - no cages for them, either? I 100% agree, they're still people, they deserve the best possible shot at becoming better integrated members of society, rehab programs instead of incarceration when appropriate and all that, but even with the amazing money saving rehabilitation rate of psych counselling for drug convictions (which a friend of ours does for a living), they're still far from 100%. Our courts throw too many under the jail for no good reason, wasting their lives and costing the community far more money than the shot at rehab they deserve, but at some point, rehab isn't working for some of them - then what?
Of course there are literally thousands of other "common" anti-social behaviors that eventually rise to the level of incarceration as well...
It's disturbing to me how you can think of no other thing for me to mean than that I want to either murder criminals or let them commit murder. This discussion is over.
Last word: you're the one who brought up murdering criminals - I just suggested you needed to equate them to animals in your head so you could justify caging them like animals.
Criminals commit murder, about 400,000 officially recognized / classified murders per year, much higher than that in reality of course, but 400K/8B is 1/20,000 per year, more like 1/400 lifetime, average, globally, just the official ones not the overlooked ones in war zones or lawless / uninvestigated situations. It's not a problem that can be ignored or written off as insignificant.