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Re: This is where I actually want a gun
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:47:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lester Witter wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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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.
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The idea of using desth row prisoners as “parts” was explored in a SciFi
story by Larry Niven
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Several, actually... you and I were posting at about the same time and I gave
some suggestions for finding them.
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(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.
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There IS that tiny downside, yes. Hence another reason to oppose the death
penalty.
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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