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Surely there can be some middle ground between giving people who murder 70+ people their preferred gaming system and putting troublemakers in solitary.

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If you want a middle ground, you can start by not arguing from outliers. Out of the several million people imprisoned in the US, how many of them in total "murdered 70+ people"? How many of them murdered even 10?

Why base your argument for moderation around such an extreme outlier?

Do you claim that most juveniles are in solitary in the US?

> "How many of them murdered even 10?"

Even that is extreme. How many committed acts of violence at all? How many are "three strikes" or prohibition victims?

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