It seems like you're making a nuanced argument about the complexities of achieving justice in a system that's been corrupted from top to bottom. Here are some key points I've distilled from your text:

1. **Corruption is pervasive**: You're suggesting that corruption can infiltrate every level of a system, making it extremely challenging to achieve a fair or just outcome.

2. **Fair process ≠ Just outcome**: Even if a fair process is followed, the outcome may still be unjust due to the corrupt nature of the system.

3. **The example of Jeffrey Epstein**: You're using the example of Jeffrey Epstein to illustrate how a corrupted system can protect and enable perpetrators, even when they commit heinous crimes.

4. **Black-and-white thinking is insufficient**: You're arguing that simplistic notions of "fair trial" or "just outcome" don't capture the complexity of real-world situations, where corruption and systemic flaws can undermine justice.

Overall, your point seems to be that achieving justice requires a more comprehensive approach than just ensuring a fair process. It involves addressing the underlying structural issues that allow corruption and injustice to thrive.

Am I accurately understanding your argument?

Agreed. Just because communism kills doesn't mean a family shouldn't share with itself or its community. Just because killing is wrong doesn't mean you shouldn't defend yourself.

There is no way to legislate morality. Bitcoin fixes many things, but at the end of the day, quality of life equals quality of consciousness.

This is why the Biblical God wanted his people to follow Him (the architect of natural law) as king, but they demanded a human to idolize.

I don't agree with the Epstein analogy; it's a different thing entirely. The fundamental point here is that ethics are expensive.

Living in very low development societies, you have very different choices than you do living in high development societies. I have friends in ES that are still in their twenties, that vividly remember times when: as a man, you could be shot for taking the wrong bus and ending up in the wrong suburb; as a parent, you might have to lock your daughter in the house permanently because you know she will be taken by the gangs for their "use" and you will never see her again. These are just a small section of the horrors of living in some parts of ES when the gangs had no pushback.

You could think of Bukele (and this applies to any government that actually functions) as another gang. But he has very broad support because his gang is promoting some kind of traditional/Christian morality in a largely Christian country. But given that context, the undoubted evil of some people (we of course will never know how many) being imprisoned unjustly, along with the more insidious evil of excessive power in the hands of one main, when balanced against the counterfactual of uncountable murders, thefts and rapes that *would* have happened without this, is easier to square off.

What matters, IMO, is whether they have a realistic chance to appeal if they've been wrongly jailed. There has to be one or two innocent guys in there..

It's ofcourse the country its fault when you don't point out WHY so many needed to be pulled off the streets. Typical to point at some onther country and point at what they do "wrong"...

The US CIA had such a "great" impact in and on this country, that it is good to be aware of one's own (gov) faults by reading up on a bit of history.

https://coffeeordie.com/cia-el-salvador

Great point and counter point…although I identify as a conflicted libertarian I lean more towards the Swann side of the argument on this one. But still think both points are valid.

These issues are much easier to solve in small communities (ie Dunbar’s number🤷🏽‍♂️).

If people wear the tattoos of criminal gangs, what more evidence do you need? Gangs take willing applicants... who pass the initiation. QED.

Not only is “truth for all” statement not true, they couldn’t care less about the misery the 1% inflicted on the 99%. I’d place a huge bet that note was written from a place of safety and comfort.

not too late for Elvis Salvador to put in place a system where the people that are in jail can get their cases heard

but I haven't heard anything about that happening