sootyj
Tuesday 21st August 2012 12:26pm
51,287 posts
Quote: Tursiops @ August 21 2012, 11:52 AM BST
I wonder how much it has cost to keep Ian Brady in prison all these years? I am guessing about the cost of building a school, or year on year the wages of around a dozen nurses. As a society we have to make choices about how tax revenue is spent. From a utilitarian point of view it does not make much sense to put that investment into maintaining the life of someone who has broken society's rules to such an extent that under no circumstances would they ever be released.
Just saying.
Executions required about 3 guards working 3 shifts a day for 3 weeks.
It wasn't cheap.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ August 21 2012, 11:43 AM BST
Or did have until Anders Breivik came along.
He's just spent a month in court arguing and probably proving beyond all doubt that it is.
And three thousand plus people murdered by the 9/11 murderers. An act that was rational in the extreme.
But any death sentence is irrelevant in such cases as it would have had no deterrent effect at all.
Rational and sane are not the same thing. Or else smoking fags and drinking booze would be a clinical diagnosis of insanity.
The 9/11 killers viewed themselves as soldiers, arguable but a diferent framework.
Quote: AJGO @ August 21 2012, 12:14 PM BST
Agreed, but we still can't go around killing people cos killing people is wrong which is why we want to kill these people. Innit.
I would like to see criminals given the opportunity to voluntarily participate in medical trials, thus giving something back to society, stopping animal testing, and hastening scientific and medical progress.
If they weren't obliged to then it wouldn't be cruel, they may get a sense of pride and feeling of playing a part in society because they would be likely to see the results of important studies published and used as the lengthy animal testing steps in a development would be eradicated, and as an alternative to dying or even boredom I think there would be a significant enough amount of lifers up for it.
I assume you mean the low risk ones stoners do for bong money.
Because otherwise you're classing people as less than animals for offending the law. And hoping to exploit people's sense of remorse and guilt.
nb a well organised, monitored and enforced scheme of community service is and always been a better option than prison.
It's cheaper, more effective and is more likely to rehabilitate the offender.
And most people won't do a bunk if prison is the other option.
I agree with Bill , sort of thought let them fend for themselves, a camp on the Falklands.
