Recent events have blurred the line between the two.Anti-Trump is not anti-American, it's pro-American as far as I'm concerned especially after recent events — Baden
Do you think your prison system could be improved? If so, how? — Baden
You need to lay off the Guinness. You sound like you just emerged from a bog caked in mud never having spoken to another human being in your life. So, the problem does (partly) lie in prisons. Higher recidivism rates = more crime, and crime is the major problem here, right? You are at about 70% and Norway at about 20%. So, don't you think this might go some way to explaining why their hardest streets are only partially aroused (to use your amusingly implicative Freudian lingo :100: )? Because they know how to reduce crime rates and they use their prison system to do it? Your reason then for not using changes in prison policy to reduce crime rates boils down to "because crime rates are high". See the problem. — Baden
You keep telling us how great America is, so why do you accept failure so easily? I'm starting to feel I'm more American than you and you really do belong in that quiet corner of the Irish bog you've just emerged from with only potatoes and sheep and some various works by Sigmund Freud for company. — Baden
Forget Norway if it makes you happy — Baden
It's sort of like how do we get the inner city schools to perform as well as the suburban schools. If we swapped all the students and put the inner city kids in the suburban schools and sent all the suburban kids down to the city, the dropout rates and performance results would stay the same among the students. What this means is that the differing schools, each with all their wonderful ideas and teachers, don't really amount to squat. It's the students as formed by their parents, their upbringing, their values, and their families. The same holds true to the amazing results of non-recidivism achieved in that now nameless place with the breathtaking fjords. They were going to get those results regardless of what they did. It's like asking how do I coach a team in the World Cup with all the greatest players of all time. I just show up and the wins happen.How do you think you can reduce your sky-high recidivism rates? — Baden
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