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Yes, but I do not want to live with the knowledge that people like that are allowed to exist in the world. Punishment be damned, eliminate them from the gene p
by baguasquirrel 17y ago
Yes, but I do not want to live with the knowledge that people like that are allowed to exist in the world. Punishment be damned, eliminate them from the gene pool.
And if you really believed in human dignity, don't you believe that exerting that sort of punishment is not only cruel to the perp, but to the prison guards who have to handle them?
And what of the money we spend on prisons instead of our children? A .45 only costs a few cents.
- barrkel 17y agoThe problem is wrongful conviction. The ability to repeal, in some small part, punishments due to wrongful conviction is worth far more than your personal need to know someone has been killed.
- baguasquirrel 17y agoIt's like the antibiotics problem. There's nothing wrong with capital punishment. The problem is that it's overprescribed.
- cabalamat 17y ago> Punishment be damned, eliminate them from the gene pool. If you want to do that, you'd have to sterilise all their descendants.
- sailormoon 17y agoPunishment be damned, eliminate them from the gene pool. .. otherwise known as eugenics. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. In fact from the utterly callous perspective of evolution and the long term interest of larger society, this is the most clear and consistent position, IMO. It's mostly nature, not nurture, and we've all known that for a very long time, although it's still too taboo to admit. So people such as the criminal in the story are bad mutations to be rejected, along with any children. So that's what we'd do if we were really serious ...