• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    I didn’t miss your point, you made a statement about ethics that was wrong and then just ignored everything else. The right to vote is an ethical one and should not be abridged. Other rights are lost either because retracting them is essential to protecting society and encouraging rehabilitation or because we just want to make them suffer. The former is ethical, the latter is not, and in the latter category few are as fundamentally unjust as removing the right to vote, particularly because extending or expanding this deprivation can and is used for political oppression against entire categories of people.

    Arguing that we shouldn’t do something because it’s an example of something we already do is a weak argument.

    This is literally the argument you’re making, jfc.