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Seems reasonable to me. Glad there aren't any comments yet saying "oh gosh it was just a video game company, those are a scourge anyway on family morals!"

mettamage 3y ago
Not to me, it's a slippery slope. Want to give someone a life sentence? Cool, all you need to do is to stamp the autism label on them and put them in a secure hospital and convict them for a crime that would get like 5 years in prison. The point is not the details (I'm obviously not a laywer or anything remotely related to that), the point is that it seems to be a slippery slope.
- neilkk 3y ago
  Did you read the article?
- theshackleford 3y ago
  > Cool, all you need to do is to stamp the autism label on them and put them in a secure hospital and convict them for a crime that would get like 5 years in prison. Good thing that’s not what happened then I guess.
  - ryandrake 3y ago
    The article specifically says: > He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger. So he's confined for life. Confinement is confinement, whether it's a prison or hospital. This definitely seems like a case where the government found a "backdoor" to allow them to get away with confining someone for life, even though they probably couldn't do through the normal criminal justice system because the punishment doesn't suit the crime.
    - Cthulhu_ 3y ago
      > So he's confined for life. > unless doctors deem him no longer a danger It's down to him and whether the institution he's in can do anything for him.
      - drewcoo 3y ago
        > It's down to him No, it's up to the doctors. If he changes nothing and docs say "we think he's no threat now," he could be freed. If he completely reforms and appears harmless and the docs don't give him the thumbs-up, he stays locked up for life.
        mettamage 3y ago
        Yep, this is my issue with it. Also, it’s autism for now. What if it slowly spreads to other diagnoses? It could slowly lead to a more authoritarian punishment environment. Things like this can grow slowly but 50 years down the line and voila: a new repressive state is born. Obviously, that doesn’t need to happen. The fact that it could scares me
A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
I am not sure the consensus here would ever consider relative moral value of attacking a 'bad guy'. I am personally saddened that a clearly brilliant mind will waste away. I, for one, do not doubt that his skill could be put to good use. Not to search, I remember being a kid and saying all sorts of things that would get me in trouble today.

mettamage 3y ago

Not to me, it's a slippery slope. Want to give someone a life sentence? Cool, all you need to do is to stamp the autism label on them and put them in a secure hospital and convict them for a crime that would get like 5 years in prison. The point is not the details (I'm obviously not a laywer or anything remotely related to that), the point is that it seems to be a slippery slope.

neilkk 3y ago
Did you read the article?
theshackleford 3y ago
> Cool, all you need to do is to stamp the autism label on them and put them in a secure hospital and convict them for a crime that would get like 5 years in prison. Good thing that’s not what happened then I guess.
- ryandrake 3y ago
  The article specifically says: > He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger. So he's confined for life. Confinement is confinement, whether it's a prison or hospital. This definitely seems like a case where the government found a "backdoor" to allow them to get away with confining someone for life, even though they probably couldn't do through the normal criminal justice system because the punishment doesn't suit the crime.
  - Cthulhu_ 3y ago
    > So he's confined for life. > unless doctors deem him no longer a danger It's down to him and whether the institution he's in can do anything for him.
    - drewcoo 3y ago
      > It's down to him No, it's up to the doctors. If he changes nothing and docs say "we think he's no threat now," he could be freed. If he completely reforms and appears harmless and the docs don't give him the thumbs-up, he stays locked up for life.
      - mettamage 3y ago
        Yep, this is my issue with it. Also, it’s autism for now. What if it slowly spreads to other diagnoses? It could slowly lead to a more authoritarian punishment environment. Things like this can grow slowly but 50 years down the line and voila: a new repressive state is born. Obviously, that doesn’t need to happen. The fact that it could scares me

A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago

I am not sure the consensus here would ever consider relative moral value of attacking a 'bad guy'. I am personally saddened that a clearly brilliant mind will waste away. I, for one, do not doubt that his skill could be put to good use. Not to search, I remember being a kid and saying all sorts of things that would get me in trouble today.