#incarceration ment

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original by nhughesoly (she/her)

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continuing thoughts i've been having on twitter. you would think that horror games would be more sympathetic to incarcerated people and treat prisoners with more dignity because of the foundational setting of 'helpless individual is confronted with a force that fundamentally Does Not Care about them and is boundlessly cruel as a result'.

However, because we live in a carceral state that misattributes agency and fundamentally views prisoners as bad actors who 'Chose Badly', the essential foundation of empathy for them as protagonists simply isn't there. Rather than being viewed with compassion as individuals that have been exploited and mistreated by a system stacked against them, they are viewed as stock villains who Chose to Do Evil