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

[TeslaCoil]

Human lives to some people are like pennies. You don't care if they get ruined or lost. In reality human life is more valuable despite who it is or what they did. Repeated offences should bring severe punishment however, but I think it's best that we don't act like we can play god with who lives and who dies. Rotting in prison is better than having your life taken away. At least you will live the remainder of your life within your own body and not euthanized like an animal.

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[Dominator]

Human lives to some people are like pennies. You don't care if they get ruined or lost. In reality human life is more valuable despite who it is or what they did. Repeated offences should bring severe punishment however, but I think it's best that we don't act like we can play god with who lives and who dies. Rotting in prison is better than having your life taken away. At least you will live the remainder of your life within your own body and not euthanized like an animal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKG07305CBs

[SeventhSandwich]

I disagree. Isolation in a cell is the most severe form of torture humanly possible.

If someone with a 50 year sentence was a high profile case like Sandusky, they would be constantly isolated from other prisoners and have their meals delivered to them. If they slept 12 hours a day (which they wouldn't because some prisons don't let you sleep as long in solitary confinement) they will be awake, alone, with nothing to do for 218,400 hours. Sit in your bathroom tub for an hour and do nothing, and then multiply that by 218,400. It's horrible.

[Awdax]

I think we should like.
Take all these bad guys and criminal scum outlaws and gang bangers.
Take 'em and amputate their arms and legs.
And then like, we take a rope and drag their live torso and head around a town.
While like, everyone points and laughs and calls them a bean.
So like - they feel bad.

This is my justice system and we should use it~

[TeslaCoil]

Maybe you're right. All I know is that out of opinion that I would rather rot in a cell than have something taken away from me that is rightfully mine. :o

[Awdax]

That's what you say now. But I'm sure if you were to have no contact with anyone for the rest of your life and be stuck in a small confined space your mind would slowly rot away.

[Nymethus]

Human lives to some people are like pennies. You don't care if they get ruined or lost. In reality human life is more valuable despite who it is or what they did. Repeated offences should bring severe punishment however, but I think it's best that we don't act like we can play god with who lives and who dies. Rotting in prison is better than having your life taken away. At least you will live the remainder of your life within your own body and not euthanized like an animal.

Locked up in a cage like an animal would be a better allegory ;)

[SeventhSandwich]

That's what you say now. But I'm sure if you were to have no contact with anyone for the rest of your life and be stuck in a small confined space your mind would slowly rot away.

It would literally be the complete opposite of rehabilitation. It's one of the many oxymorons in our penitentiaries.

[Camera]

The most horrible crimes are punished by death of course. :)

As for the method of execution it is up to the one who sentenced them.

[TeslaCoil]

That's what you say now. But I'm sure if you were to have no contact with anyone for the rest of your life and be stuck in a small confined space your mind would slowly rot away.

Sure it would suck. but I view it as the lesser of two evils.

[Nymethus]

Sure it would suck. but I view it as the lesser of two evils.

Why do we have to have "evils" at all? can't we just fix people?

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

[Cucumber!]

Why do we have to have "evils" at all? can't we just fix people?

Exactly.

[TeslaCoil]

Why do we have to have "evils" at all? can't we just fix people?

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

[SeventhSandwich]

Why do we have to have "evils" at all? can't we just fix people?

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.

[Cucumber!]

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

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