Hi Hive account@macoolette ! I'll start from the back to the beginning

The thing i'm operating with my feet is a loop pedal. When i press, it records guitar and/or mic. Thats why i played the hole song recording guitar and bass (bass line with the guitar) and the voices of the chorus while im singing.

The song is mine yes!

And the most important, why do i want to end up with the punishment system? That answer is very long, ill do my best to make it as brief as a reply shoud be, just sticking to what you mentioned.

When i started studying law i had the same opinion you havE, that punishment was good to prevent and control crimes, but a deeper look at the penal system, criminological studies and the history of penal punishment shows that jail has the exact opposite efect. The more you punish, the more crimes you have, the more people you trap and force to live under those inhuman conditions, the more (and worst) criminals you'll get, the less control you have.

Thinking in alternatives is not easy, because we were born and educated to believe that torture and prision solve those problems, and even when we understand that studies show that they just make it worse, we are afraid to keep "criminals free". Authors that propose abolishment of penal system are not lunatic lawyers that want to close jails in 24 hours and leave all problems unsolved, in fact, they are the only ones who want to really solve the problem.

The first point is to start with alternatives in the less harmfull crimes (like theft or marihuana possession) that are 90 percent of the reasons why people are in jail. Alternatives could be as mediation,comunity services (but while they are free, near the family that helps a lot, and away from hardcore criminals). In my country there are prisions where prisioners can study (elementary, highschool and some university careers), and the more they achieve, the more their sentences are shortened. Those are just examples of how to avoid or reduce punishment.

But the most important thing to understand is that you don't have to propose a fully eficient alternative, those things resolve themselves while the change is being done, one experience helps the other, and helps creativity. When slavery abolishment was proposed, abolitionists didn't know a fully efective alternative to make the economic and social system work without slaves, but they where sure that slavery had to stop anyway, and now we are better than those days (in fact the end of slavery and the beggining of the penal system as we know it today are extremely related -there is a netflix documentary called "13 enmend" that speaks about this, it is VERY GOOD.

Hive account@macoolette as i said, it's amazing for me to know that a song i wrote was the starting point of critical thinking and debate! There are thousands of things to say regarding crimes and punishment, but i don't want to bore you! If you are still interested, we can continue, it's a pleasure for me.

Thank you very much for your comment!! =)