RE: FORWARD: "Prison Blues"

O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Wed, 19 May 1999 11:27:51 +1000

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>From: Michael S. Lorrey[SMTP:mike@lorrey.com]
>Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
>Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 1999 9:18
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: FORWARD: "Prison Blues"
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>DouglasWhitworth wrote:
>
>> >In a message dated 5/17/99 1:41:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> >david_musick@juno.com writes:
>> >
>> ><< Besides the fact that you can go home at the end of the day, what is
>>the
>> > real difference 'twixt gov't schools and gov't prisons? >>
>> >
>> >Pretense.
>> >
>> To the above 2 institutions you can add a third, compulsory military
>> conscription.
>
>Not quite. You can always get cashiered from the military, and if you are bad
>enough, expelled from government schools. The only ways to get kicked out of
>a prison are to either do your time, or be even worse to get sent to a worse
>prison.
>
>Mike Lorrey

But if you get expelled from government schools for being bad enough, isn't there a strong probability that you'll eventually end up in prison anyway?

Emlyn
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