But not as much as I hate those who throw this insult around whenever someone wants to come up with a progressive, more humane solution to a problem. even when that solution is actually more rational
Case in point, the prison situation. It seems that anyone who is concerned about the conditions of prisoners will get dismissed as a bleeding heart at some point. This of course, is ignoring these facts
-A lot of the people who are in prison are in there for non violent or even victimless crimes to begin with.
-Incarcerating all these people will just cost more for everyone in the long run.
-They will likely turn back to a life of even worse crime, creating potentially more victims.
These are all logical reasons to be critical of the penal system. But the hardass types will usually ignore such logic because I guess they think showing compassion is for sissies. They'll bring up the following arguments.
-"Prison ain't supposed to be fun" (yeah, well it shouldn't be cruel and unusual either)
-"They put themselves there" (no, the state did)
-"You want to support the right of rapists and murderers?" (No, I want to support the right of the average Joe's who get unfairly punished for minor drug offenses and other mistakes).
What makes me so sick is that these hardasses who hate "bleeding hearts" for being "irrational and emotional" are using their own fucking emotional arguments. Especially when the bring up the crimes of the worst serial killers, acting as if that is your average prisoner. I just don't get these people. They look down on the "bleeding hearts" or progressives for wanting to be more humane, yet have no logical arguments of their own. And even if they did, what's wrong with wanting to try to be humane and progressive? Why is that such a scary idea for them?