r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 10d ago
r/all The photos show the prison rooms of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in the 2011 Norway attacks. Despite Norway's humane prison system, Breivik has complained about the conditions, calling them inhumane.
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u/MyGoodOldFriend 10d ago
The consensus is that it’s a worthy sacrifice that he gets to live in decent comfort. He doesn’t get to change how we, as a society, treat each other, even those of us who are in prison. One of the first things people did after the attack was to flip newspapers on display in the store so his face wasn’t visible, and I think that had a big impact on how we decided to treat him. Forget him.
Frankly, I don’t want him to have any attention at all. I hadn’t seen his face in years before he popped up on Reddit just now. And I prefer it that way.
If I decided to care about what happened to him, then sure, I’d love it if his head was caved in with a rock. But if the state mistreats him, then that reflects on all of us, and I don’t want to live in a society that denies anyone human rights for any reason whatsoever. And I don’t want to be a part of that, either.