Subject:
|
Re: This is where I actually want a gun
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:00:29 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
337 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
| |
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
| |
Dave is spot on in his complete and utter outrage at this unspeakable crime!
“Do unto others”. I only wish he could be tortured before his execution.
|
But, John, the death penalty is, so, well, final.
What if there was a mistake? It does happen, you know. Even in these
apparently close and shut cases, with “confessions” and neat surveilance
videotapes and everything.
What if the prison system was set up so that it didn’t cost the state to
incarcerate him, but instead it generated something for the victim’s family?
What if he was worth more as parts than just plain dead? Let him live out his
remaining years with a sliver of liver, one lung, one kidney and no eyes,
every day people perish for lack of a transplantable kidney, let him repay
his debt that way.
But to want to torture someone “for their crime” is to be as bad as they.
|
The idea of using desth row prisoners as “parts” was explored in a SciFi story
by Larry Niven (can’t remeber the name). The hypothesis of his story was that if
the condemed were used for parts, then over time, more and more crimes would
become death penalty to increase the supply of organs. In the story the man was
condemed for traffic violations.
Lester
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: This is where I actually want a gun
|
| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lester Witter wrote: <snip> (...) It was also used in "Lexx" the miniseries... THough in that series, iirc, almost any offence got you put up on the slab to be parsed (even being late for work!), and, again iirc, much (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | Re: This is where I actually want a gun
|
| "lester Witter" <witter@erim-int.com> wrote in message news:HstoCt.1xzx@lugnet.com... (...) story (...) that if (...) would (...) man was (...) This is definitely a concern. I think I would be concerned even if it was done in such a way as to not be (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: This is where I actually want a gun
|
| (...) But, John, the death penalty is, so, well, final. What if there was a mistake? It does happen, you know. Even in these apparently close and shut cases, with "confessions" and neat surveilance videotapes and everything. What if the prison (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
45 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
