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> You claim that being profit driven does make things magically better and provide a single example.

> you think the example given counts as many instances of the claim being true is not relevant.

> claim that was made can only be shown to be true if it is demonstrated that it works in every single example and not some small subset of examples.

Your claim that govt run prisons are more humane doesn't "works in every single example" either, as pointed out by GP.




I didn’t claim government run prisons are always better. I’ve consistently said they are generally better.




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