Talk to them I spose.

I have the gift of many mental illnesses. Had to live with it.

stevoqwerty

That online test doesn't count as a diagnosis.

Don't believe in God, but I do have gifts I spose.

I hardly ever get sick, the cold I have right now is the first illness I've had in about 6-12 months.

I'm a manly man. Broke my ankle a while back, never saw a doctor or did anything beyond "put a bandage on it and watch tv."

Vast reserves of general knowledge swirling around my brain, especially about science.

Your sister in law's going to need some support, help her out.

It would be far more productive to implement an initiative that implants every new baby with something that would prevent them from procreating in the future. Then, in the future, should you choose to have children, you could go to a clinic that would allow you to procreate once as normal. There should be requirements and backround checks in order to have children. This is the ONLY WAY to stop the cycle of abuse and other types of mistreatement that get passed down from generation to generation. I'm willing to bet good money that over 90% of criminals have a family history of either violence, drug and other substance abuse, or other felonies such as breaking and entering. It will never happen though...too invasive.

Derek240

Orwellian dystopias! :D

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Which reminds me, prisoners should have "better" jobs. Somehow get them to work in the mines or the sewers or something unpleasant and demanding. Jobs that no-one wants. Plenty of people would rather make wallets and license plates than clean poo or test drugs.

SeraphimGoddess

Well they'll think twice next time they consider taking granny's purse won't they? It's quite simple really, don't break the law. I'm certain there will be fewer second time offenders this way.

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It's still cheaper to execute them than feed, clothe and provide medical attention to them for their whole lives. They should probably scrap the lethal injection bit too, hanging was quicker and more cost effective.

SeraphimGoddess

Life sentence: Let's be optimistic and say 50 years until they die naturally, compared to
Death sentence: 20-30 years in prison followed by all the tons of special trials required in the whole process

it's easy to see why the latter would rack up costs. I mean sure, we could send them straight to the guillotine, but that has no chances of backfiring, right? And I have to add prisoners aren't getting 4-star treatment here; the amount of money to maintain a prisoner really isn't that much to begin with. Plus they often work to some extent while in prison.

Which reminds me, prisoners should have "better" jobs. Somehow get them to work in the mines or the sewers or something unpleasant and demanding. Jobs that no-one wants. Plenty of people would rather make wallets and license plates than clean poo or test drugs.

The Death Penalty is wholly immoral, unfortunately it is too much for the brain capacity of most in todays society to consider that a human cannot be purely evil or purely good. And that I believe as suggested In Burgesses A Clockwork Orange, that a human commiting such evils will begin to transform and recognize the faults of their actions in time, though the time obviously varies from person. There is a belief that some men cannot be changed, that is because we don't give them time to, we don't reason, we simply punish in hopes of it somehow curing the individual of his hatred, unfortunately I fear that simply enthralling an opposite force of hatred onto hatred is not an effective means to curing it. lil_zelda_dude

It's impractical though. There is no single way to make people better, if they are bad, they will stay that way.

No. I personally have no moral objection to the eye for an eye (inb4 leaves the whole world blind hurr) way of thinking, but it's a flawed system that plays with potentially innocent lives and too much money. And personally, I think life in prison is already a fitting enough punishment for the most part.SeraphimGoddess

It's still cheaper to execute them than feed, clothe and provide medical attention to them for their whole lives. They should probably scrap the lethal injection bit too, hanging was quicker and more cost effective.

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Yes, but only under strict guidelines:

There has to no shadow of a doubt towards their guilt.

If this person confesses to the crime from the start they're spared.

And the murder must not be slightly justified in any way. Random killing / debt settlement = capital punishment. Revenge / fear = life.

As for torture, only to rapists and child molesters. Cops should also be allowed to rough up people withholding evidence and acting like smart asses. Just like in the 70s.

Also TC, I think you may have been brainwashed by the media, most of the time sentences are fair, the vast minority get reported on the news for being a miscarriage of justice.

heatsinkhole

Did you read about the other countless people who got life in imprisonment, with a chance for parole a long, long time away? Sure there's going to be cases like those and they do suck, but the legal system doesn't alway fail. You may have seen all those crime shows where the bad guys use the insanity plea? That only works around 2% of cases and is often worse than actual imprisonment. The doctors could keep you there forever if they want. And then there are the crazies.