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WCDT Strips 4316-4320 (27-31 July 2020)

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ihaveavoice:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 29 Jul 2020, 08:33 ---I do notice a lot of righteous indignation hurled at characters for not making the perfect and most appropriate response to stressful situations. As if everyone should be expected to perfectly collected and rational at all times. As if real people aren't a hot mess of emotions and irrationality.

As someone who kinda shares May's sense of humour and colourful verbiage and is closely associated with a lot of other people who do as well, I don't understand the magnitude of the hate she gets from certain members of the audience.

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S A M E. As someone who doesn't share May's communication style at all and if anything is more like Momo in the sense of being seen as generally calm/polite, I've often felt confused by the comments I'll see from some posters expecting the worst from May by default. She basically has her own special dialect of sentences broken up by constant swear words in frequently gross combinations and tends to be surly and brusque the moment she gets uncomfortable, but we've seen her heart so many times. We've seen her care for these people, and sometimes take care of them. Even her grumpy retorts are so often unconvincing attempts to hide her affection for her friends, who can clearly tell! We also know that she values the rights and well-being of other disenfranchised AI over her own, and that she's so touched that Roko is willing to go out on a limb for her that she's always been cool with (and frankly expected) failure as an outcome to this quest for a better chassis, and we know these things because the comic has shown them to us multiple times. Sure, dislike her if you want - I certainly understand finding aspects of her dialogue off-putting. But some of the commentary goes beyond that to assuming motivations of her that just make zero sense with the character we've been shown. It's like her outside colors over her inside for some readers. It makes me feel like I'm reading a completely different comic sometimes.

dutchrvl:
I am greatly ehm...enjoying? maybe appreciating? the current arc, and happy that May is finally getting to a place where she can hopefully really start addressing her selfworth/esteem issues that have been apparent almost from the moment she was introduced to us.

And yay for Momo :)

Also another great reminder of the fact that in most (perhaps all even?) societies convicts, regardless of the crime and length of imprisonment, are basically given lifetime sentences. We can argue all day long about our own ideas regarding "appropriate" sentences, but in my simple mind anyone who has lawfully served their time should have a real chance to restart their life with most/all opportunities others have, otherwise what's the point.

sitnspin:
The penal system was never designed to be reformative, it has always been purely punitive in its intent.

Thrudd:

--- Quote from: sitnspin on 30 Jul 2020, 07:57 ---The penal system was never designed to be reformative, it has always been purely punitive in its intent.

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For the states that is very true and you can add "profit centre" to the list of things it is designed to be.

Fortunately for those in other parts of the world, like the Nordic countries, education as well as medical and psychological treatment are part of the "keep them away from everyone else for a time".

dutchrvl:
As Thrudd mentioned, the penal systems in other countries are not designed to be purely punitive, beside the nordic countries this is true for the Netherlands also. Definitely not designed to be purely punitive and not for-profit either.

That said, unfortunately for many ex-convicts, even in those countries often it still constitutes a lifelong sentence at least to some extent. I'm sure some people are okay with that for certain crimes, but the principle still stands that if by law you get convicted for a certain time, you should be able to start over afterwards without perpetual further punishment. If we want the latter for certain crimes than the law should be changed.

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