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Would you rather---DP or life?

Started by MadImmortalMan, December 28, 2013, 05:23:22 PM

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Choose a rapid death penalty or life in prison

Death. Tomorrow at dawn.
9 (40.9%)
Life in jail as a slave of the state, Number Six.
13 (59.1%)
Hikikomori is the way to go. I am stored away by choice.
0 (0%)

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MadImmortalMan

December 28, 2013, 05:23:22 PM
The phrase "At least he didn't get the death penalty" has always been a little baffling to me. It only makes sense in the context of a long, drawn out mess of years spent as a prisoner waiting to die. But if the alternative is immediate execution, I would far rather have that. Is life really worth having if you spend it as a slave sitting in storage with no ability to do anything?

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Neil

#1
December 28, 2013, 05:31:38 PM
Life imprisonment is utterly immoral.
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Razgovory

#2
December 28, 2013, 05:35:46 PM
Dude, I spend my life sitting in storage waiting to die.  It's not so bad.  Being dead though, there's no take backs when you are dead.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Neil

#3
December 28, 2013, 05:58:11 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 28, 2013, 05:35:46 PM
Dude, I spend my life sitting in storage waiting to die.  It's not so bad.  Being dead though, there's no take backs when you are dead.
So then the state should also execute you?
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Admiral Yi

#4
December 28, 2013, 06:20:00 PM
Depends if I get cable.

The Brain

#5
December 28, 2013, 06:22:33 PM
Depends. A civilized jail or Machiavellian pound-you-in-the-ass gaol?
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Liep

#6
December 28, 2013, 06:24:24 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 28, 2013, 06:22:33 PM
Depends. A civilized jail or Machiavellian pound-you-in-the-ass gaol?

Yeah, I mean, life in Danish prison is 16 years with cable and a cell for yourself. But life in an American prison, shoot me.
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Queequeg

#7
December 28, 2013, 06:24:54 PM
Slave, probably.  Maybe nice agricultural work in the Roman Empire in Corsica or Sardinia. 
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#8
December 28, 2013, 06:29:18 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on December 28, 2013, 06:24:54 PM
Slave, probably.  Maybe nice agricultural work in the Roman Empire in Corsica or Sardinia.

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Ideologue

#9
December 28, 2013, 06:35:15 PM
Five death votes, no life imprisonment votes.

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Razgovory

#10
December 28, 2013, 06:48:57 PM
Forgot to vote.  Also a prisoner is not a slave, they can't be forced to do work.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Neil

#11
December 28, 2013, 06:49:43 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on December 28, 2013, 06:35:15 PM
Five death votes, no life imprisonment votes.

But when I bring it up, I'm a real monster.
Wait, why are you a monster?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ideologue

#12
December 28, 2013, 06:52:11 PM
Well, on second thought, I think it was just Beeb or somebody getting on my case.  You know, one of those jokers who "values human life."
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Neil

#13
December 28, 2013, 07:17:55 PM
That's ridiculous.  I can't believe that a guy whose job it is to send people to jail could possibly see any value in human life.  Otherwise, how could he do something so antisocial?
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Sheilbh

#14
December 28, 2013, 08:36:58 PM
Life. I'm assuming in a prison system that doesn't have mass rape. I could get a lot of reading done.
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