I just realized something. I'm wasting my time talking to someone whose opinion of my mental state is about as informed as my understanding of Swahili.
You're not qualified to evaluate my mental state. You're a coder, not a psychologist, not a shrink.
The Stanford prison experiment is interesting, but it is also irrelevant. Prisons aren't filled with individuals chosen at random from the larger society and arbitrarily assigned roles as guards and convicts. Prisons are filled with CRIMINALS. Bad people who have done bad things, usually repeatedly before they were finally caught, and who would still be out there doing more of those same bad things if they were not locked up.
I want black hats locked up. If Bubba gives them a welcoming party while there.....maybe they'll think twice before pulling that kind of crap again. If not, Bubba will still be there for their second visit.
Smoking joints is proof of profound stupidity. I've no sympathy for someone stupid enough to violate a law whose consequences are known to all. Get caught with a joint, go to jail. The only winning move is to stay away from such drugs. I do believe that the laws and money spent on such things are unneccesary, but then so are the joints themselves. Illicit Drugs aren't useful or helpful. They're damaging. A real pass/fail IQ test all around. Fuck drug users. If they're stupid enough to do drugs and get caught then I'm not going to cry cause they're having to face the consequences.
As for the kiddy porn argument, that's specious nonsense. No one has ever been convicted of traffiking child pornography on that basis. There have been sexual predators who have tried to pretend that the tens of thousands of images of children being sexually abused found on their computer were somehow put there by others. Such arguments don't stand up in court and Chester the Child Molester gets locked up, as he should be.