Probably a false equivalence to the prisoner population, as if China doesn’t have any prisons and it wasn’t an entirely different issue
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BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months agoSource? From my experience, US goes in the opposite direction. They keep inventing new reasons to kick people out. Their Title 42 is a perfect example of how they circumvent their Title 8 protections.
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
booty@hexbear.net 6 months ago
bjs.ojp.gov/…/prisoners-2022-statistical-tables
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well, you and I use a different definition of abduction. While I’ll give you that some of those people are probably imprisoned wrongly, the majority are there because of their own actions. I wouldn’t fault China imprisoning someone for breaking their laws (even if I disagree with the law), I also don’t fault US for imprisoning people for breaking their laws. Treatment of those prisoners is a different question altogether.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Your definition of abduction apparently includes persuading people to go somewhere, so I think there are many lacks in terms of definitions here.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Asking under a threat of harm is no longer called persuasion, it’s a crime.
booty@hexbear.net 6 months ago
Here’s the definition I use, it’s quite common
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Now compare that to imprisonment. One is legal action, another is illegal action. One can argue about the morality of that, but the distinction is clear.