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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%)

Total Members Voted: 21

Admiral Yi

Yeah, constant rape can cut into reading time.

Eddie Teach

Plenty of time to read when you're dead.
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Razgovory

Quote from: Sheilbh on 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.


That's a Catholic tradition I'm unfamiliar with.
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Sheilbh

I always thought mass was a very American tradition.
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Eddie Teach

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Viking

Quote from: Razgovory on December 28, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on 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.


That's a Catholic tradition I'm unfamiliar with.

Well, at least prison guards get fired rather than relocted if they get caught raping the inmates under their care.
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Barrister

Quote from: Neil on 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?

:grr:

It's because I value human life that I think those who harm human life must go to gaol in response to their actions.
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Barrister

Quote from: Ideologue on December 29, 2013, 12:06:02 AM
Vengeance is a rather pagan ethos.

It has nothing to do with vengeance.  Rather, I believe in the healing powers of gaol. -_-
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Ideologue

Canadian gaol must be a lot different than American gaol.
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HVC

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MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Barrister on December 29, 2013, 12:13:49 AM
Rather, I believe in the healing powers of gaol. -_-

Wow, yours must be very different than ours.  :lol:

I dunno though. Being institutionalized just damages people. Even if it's a golden cage.
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Barrister

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 29, 2013, 12:38:23 AM
Quote from: Barrister on December 29, 2013, 12:13:49 AM
Rather, I believe in the healing powers of gaol. -_-

Wow, yours must be very different than ours.  :lol:

I dunno though. Being institutionalized just damages people. Even if it's a golden cage.

So if someone, say, robs a liquor store at gunpoint, what should we do with that person?  Since putting them in gaol just damages them.
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Ideologue

1. Establish a negative income tax so that no one need rob a liquor store to secure the rudiments of existence.
2. Execute anyone robbing a liquor store.
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Ideologue

P.S.: If society can't afford to do 1, it obviously can't afford to gaol them, so proceed to step 2 anyway.
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