The Death Penalty: The Number Two Most Controversial Topic in BL EVER

[Nymethus]

you can't always fix people. that's just how it works.

oh ok then

Well then we should spend less time on death penalties and focus more on research designed to "fix" people.

thank you

Well there has never been a psychiatric, "cure" so far so not right now at least. We're getting close to medicines that can cure PTSD through erasing specific memories the person chooses.

I don't mean pills when I say fix. I mean freakin' talk to them and train them for society. you know, fix them!

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[SeventhSandwich]

I don't mean pills when I say fix. I mean freakin' talk to them and train them for society. you know, fix them!

My statement stands. Psychiatry isn't 100% effective. It is effective though, just not a definite or complete cure for the underlying causes of mental illness.

[Awdax]

When the world decides to fix people instead, I want to become a serial killer, go along with the whole "fixing" thing, pretend I'm all better, live life casually, then kill again.

[TeslaCoil]

My statement stands. Psychiatry isn't 100% effective. It is effective though, just not a definite or complete cure for the underlying causes of mental illness.

there's also the issue of people thinking that every crime committed is because of mental illness. Just because someone killed someone else or stole something doesn't mean that there's something wrong with their brain. It's human nature.

[Cucumber!]

there's also the issue of people thinking that every crime committed is because of mental illness. Just because someone killed someone else or stole something doesn't mean that there's something wrong with their brain. It's human nature.

Yes but that Id of human nature is very frowned upon by society now, and is irreversible to back to the primitive ways.

after all, saying "it was human nature" does not go well in a courtroom to prove you innocent if you killed someone

[TeslaCoil]

Yes but that Id of human nature is very frowned upon by society now, and is irreversible to back to the primitive ways.

after all, saying "it was human nature" does not go well in a courtroom to prove you innocent if you killed someone

You think the amount of killing would reduce in our oh so great futuristic society who frowns upon "the human nature". Killing and Crime has never stopped and it never will. You would be a fool to think that there won't be an angry man or a greedy crook in the future. We can advance all we want to, but it's the tech that's advancing not the human race.

[SeventhSandwich]

there's also the issue of people thinking that every crime committed is because of mental illness. Just because someone killed someone else or stole something doesn't mean that there's something wrong with their brain. It's human nature.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it human nature but I won't deny that there are other issues at hand in a criminal's mind that aren't just mental illness.

[Cucumber!]

You think the amount of killing would reduce in our oh so great futuristic society who frowns upon "the human nature". Killing and Crime has never stopped and it never will. You would be a fool to think that there won't be an angry man or a greedy crook in the future. We can advance all we want to, but it's the tech that's advancing not the human race.

You know now that I think about it you're right on that one. Maybe the tech is getting a little too far advanced..?

[Nymethus]

what was that story about the non-violent town where criminals were simply put in the middle of the town?

anyone remember? wasn't this real?

[Ceist]

i vote we kill everyone who commits a crime. if you're caught j-walking you get beheaded.

[TeslaCoil]

You know now that I think about it you're right on that one. Maybe the tech is getting a little too far advanced..?

The machines man. The machines are plotting.

[Nymethus]

My statement stands. Psychiatry isn't 100% effective. It is effective though, just not a definite or complete cure for the underlying causes of mental illness.

Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase "practice makes perfect".

[TeslaCoil]

So how many peoples lives will we have to risk until a psycho decides that his therapists are right?

[Nymethus]

So how many peoples lives will we have to risk until a psycho decides that his therapists are right?

I dunno, how many lives will we have to risk until everything solves itself magically?

[TeslaCoil]

I dunno, how many lives will we have to risk until everything solves itself magically?

We wouldn't have to. People should be limited to the number of times they can try to change. If they continue to act as a risk to the community they either rot in prison or death by lethal injection.