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Not to be anti-rehabilitation, but I submit that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea.

• jgg 17y ago
  What about the part where we hypothetically solved their problems? Once we kill a few people, have we crossed a line that keeps us from being ethical, higher-level beings? I find it interesting and instructive in situations like this to think about what it would take to make you or me go over the edge and just start killing people (I'm NOT justifying murder in ANY way, I'm just throwing this out there). As I said above, these people did it for some reason, despite most or all of them knowing that there was a punishment involved...what is the reason? If we uncover it, can we help them and maybe release them into society? Why is my response starting to sound like a bad paper for an undergrad philosophy course? (-:
• whughes 17y ago
  Well - you basically made the exact reply he was expecting. I think that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea, yes. The reason why we should keep serial killers in jail, though, is not that they're serial killers - it's that, in most cases, they tend to not care and will willingly kill again. If there is a serial killer who is provably not sociopathic and who can actually become reformed, then that person should be eventually let out of jail. That is a very difficult standard to meet.
  • jgg 17y ago
    Yes, my example of a serial killer was a really bad one in retrospect, exactly because most if not all are sociopaths and there probably isn't a way to help them.
  • nazgulnarsil 17y ago
    okay. please spend your own money to do this and not mine.