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Originally Posted by Rococo
Kelhus and tame_deuces are the only posters who are actually responding to the issue that well named is flagging.
I would add the following observations. First, dehumanization is a common response when people are in positions where they are forced to deal with, or even impose, human suffering. For example, you see it often in police officers and prison guards, very often in soldiers, and occasionally in medical professionals.
Second, the effects of routinization extend even wider. People who participate in long-running financial frauds often report that the fraud began to seem like a normal job, especially as the months and years added up with no apparent consequences. You probably see a similar phenomenon with cheating spouses.
There's not much to respond to on that issue. As long as you detain and exert control over people, stuff like
Abu Ghraib is going to occur. The only way we can completely avoid those type of abuses, even to a lesser extent than Abu Ghraib, is not to incarcerate anybody. That's not practical.
The only answer is to exert oversight over the the detention of humans, and punish those who engage in that type of behavior. With that said, it takes special set of circumstances for people to participate in torture, that's unlikely to occur across an entire organization as big as the immigration authorities, but rather happens at specific camps, or facilities, where that type environment is allowed to percolate.
Finally, being incarcerated just sucks, your liberty is completely stripped from you. Nothing you can do about that, and it's going to suck, no matter what. Even the most cozy jails suck.
Last edited by itshotinvegas; 10-16-2019 at 12:14 PM.