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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/news/p/1395876/streamer-troll-johnny-somali-found-guilty-on-all-counts-sentenced-to-south-korean-prison-l

Ramsey Khalid Ismael — better known as Johnny Somali, the infamous American streamer arrested in Japan, Israel, and South Korea for his provocative behavior — has been imprisoned in South Korea.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

You seem to be under the impression that he's anything other than just a giant asshole.

Yeah, actually. I don’t believe in essences. Under my personal philosophy, we humans are more like information perturbation machines with extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. It’s close to saying you aren’t anything except the uniquely weighted combination of all your prior experiences, having been processed through the human scope of awareness and memory (if distinguishing the two is even fair here).

That said, nobody is nothing except “just a giant asshole.” I mean that physically, you can’t. You’re stuck in a constant state of becoming something, not being something, which is a necessary consequence of having your human awareness.

The boys deviance from our expectations has to do with his upbringing. We should be able to use specialist services to counterweight that upbringing. And I’d go as far to say, we really should be taking this approach to punishment. Because our current version of just hiding them away in an isolated brick room where nobody except similar deviants and Correction Officers can reach them… that in particular is a rather barbaric approach, in my opinion.

I think prison is exactly the place that was constructed just for cases like his. Maybe this time he will learn.

And what about being “constructed just for cases like this” means it was the right approach? The concentration camps in the holocaust were also constructed for purpose, yet I hope you wouldn’t use the same argument for those.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

You’re stuck in a constant state of becoming something, not being something, which is a necessary consequence of having your human awareness.

Yeah well he is in a constant state of becoming an even bigger asshole.

It's sounds like a beautiful philosophy you have. But it's just not applicable to how the world looks like.

And no. I would not use the same argument for fucking nazi concentration camps. Which is a really dumb strawman but you know what. Just for you.

They were not constructed to punish and reform. They were constructed to murder people. People whose only crime was not being "German".

You think they're similar in any way to a South Korean prison? If not, why even being it up?