The world leans towards prison without settling the matter: 50 % yes, 36 % no, 14 % no opinion. It is exactly the split of a question where everyone senses a missing piece of information: the age, the degree of coercion, the seriousness of the acts.
The sharpest divide of the day is gender, at thirty points: women vote heavily for prison (80 %), while men split into two equal halves.
By age, 18-to-24-year-olds are the strictest and pull the global result towards yes. The 25-to-34 bracket does the exact opposite, unanimously against incarceration. The 45-54s and the over-65s split down the middle.
The debate does not mirror the vote: the most endorsed contributions come from the minority camp. They ask that the person running the traffic be distinguished from the one merely carrying for it, and note that jailing a foot soldier does not bring down a network, since they will simply be replaced.
The vulnerability argument recurs: a minor recruited and manipulated by adults would call for educational support rather than detention. Facing them, the majority camp holds a simple line, put in English by one voice: every action has consequences, and being young does not exempt you from them.
The thread's only real exchange shifts the question. To the fear that prison locks young people into delinquency for good, a reply concedes the risk while refusing the conclusion: the problem is not the sanction but a prison system that is too punitive and not focused enough on reintegration. The debate thus slides from « should this young person be punished » to « what is prison for ».