AZKC wrote:
I guess if you want to take a single sentence out of a longer post, you can pretend it says whatever the fuck you want it to.
I can recognize it as saying what it does, which apparently isn't what you wanted to say.  The context of your overall post doesn't change your contention that abstinence is a way to stay of out prison.  If you were to say it would reduce your likelihood of getting so entangled, I'd agree.  But your statement wasn't that.

It's true that were blacks in general to commit fewer crimes, it's quite likely that fewer of them would become entangled in the criminal justice system.  One could say the same thing about any category of people, with the possible exceptions of Wall Streeters and lawyers.  But the contention that improved behaviour on the part of any given person means he or she will not end up entangled in the criminal justice system is simply not true.   There are far too many exceptions to that rule for it to be a rule.  There is far too little incentive against gaming the system against defendants for that to be true. 

If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. - Federalist 51