Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Released from Prison
It's pretty rich that almost this entire thread is arguing about the prison not respecting Sunde's vegan wishes and his personal wealth and ideals. There are more than ninety comments here and all of them hang off nearly-dead comments.<p>The entire point of prison is to suck, otherwise it wouldn't serve its role, which is to deter crime. Louis CK has a bit about this in one of his recent specials:<p><pre><code>    ...but we really need the law against murder, for
    one simple reason: the law against murder is the number
    one thing preventing murder. We'd like to think it's
    because "oh, I would never do that," no, it's because
    it really sucks getting caught murdering. A lot. [1]
</code></pre>
Debating the prison's respect for Sunde's vegan wishes misses the forest for the trees. Honestly, if that's your biggest concern from reading this article, you have really messed up priorities. How about the fact that he went to maximum <i>at all?</i><p>Anyway, just an oddly off-topic thread here, thought I'd point it out. It's even more fun because I've been detained, so reading some of the arguments makes it clear that I'm one of the only people with that experience here. Prison's not something you can just try, to see what it's like, so unless you've been there it's usually wise to assume the worst things are true rather than being optimistic about rights and common sense. If one thing is true about detention, it's that rights and common sense don't matter at all when the door's closed and nobody's looking.<p>Also, welcome back, Peter.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUr2RkjykU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUr2RkjykU</a>