Invisible compartmentalization, not invisibility itself, makes crimes permissible

Evidence

“The ring of Gyges that has itself become invisible—that is precisely in what consists the act of setting apart. It is setting apart oneself and the crime one commits; not establishing the connection between the two.” What Gyges says is, “I have become king and the other king has been assassinated. The two things are totally unrelated. Here is the ring.” One sets something aside and forgets that one has set it aside, one compartmentalizes—and “that faculty of setting apart makes all crimes permissible.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 429 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I hesitate to make unmediated use of such statistical evidence because it can discourage the very critical thinking that ought to be elicited by an understanding of the prison industrial complex. It is precisely the abstraction of numbers that plays such a central role in criminalizing those who experience the misfortune of imprisonment. There are many different kinds of men and women in the prisons, jails, and INS and military detention centers, whose lives are erased by the Bureau of Justice Statistics figures. The numbers recognize no distinction between the woman who is imprisoned on drug conspiracy and the man who is in prison for killing his wife, a man who might actually end up spending less time behind bars than the woman. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 247 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Compartmentalization, not the ring’s invisibility, makes crimes permissible — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 429; Crime can be redefined as tort requiring repair rather than retribution; Statistical abstraction itself criminalizes prisoners by erasing their differences. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 247 (+8 more)

Related

• Compartmentalization, not the ring’s invisibility, makes crimes permissible (similarity 0.86)
• Statistical abstraction itself criminalizes prisoners by erasing their differences. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Compartmentalization, not the ring’s invisibility, makes crimes permissible #corroborates (0.95) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 429
• Crime can be redefined as tort requiring repair rather than retribution #responds-to (0.55)
• Statistical abstraction itself criminalizes prisoners by erasing their differences. #corroborates (0.50) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 247
• People are imprisoned largely because their communities are criminalized, not for crimes #corroborates (0.45) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 296
• Criminalized communities, not individual acts, determine who ends up imprisoned #corroborates (0.45)