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I think we've gone soft in this day and age. Though oddly cruel as well. It's as if we can't make up our minds...
I will admit I am an ignoramus when it comes to politics and the more complex nature of human rights in a legal sense, but something ocurred to me about how we deal with Death Row prisoners (in the USA) or the High security prisoners in the UK.
Why not enlist them in the army?
Train them as specialist mercenaries, get them overseas and get them to repay their debt that way. Maybe that's just an example of my special brand of hypocrisy (I am against the Death Penalty in all circumstances) but as I have no illusions as to the existence of the thing we like to call justice - but that's another philosophical battle - instead of wasting the talent (and taxes and equipment it takes to execute these low-lives) that some of these murderers undoubtedly have, why not get them to make use of these talents in the way most appropriate. War is brilliant, if only for that reason.
As for the ones with clear mental problems, who are murderers/rapists not for their guile but out of sheer, erm, evil (?) - such as paedophiles and sexual perverts - I really don't know why we don't use them for intensive research into the way that the brain works.
When it comes to crime and punishment today, as far as I can tell, it's a weird mixture of the sloppy, the charitable and the cruel. So much for an age of Reason, though perhaps my brand of Reason is just a little cold, heh.
I will admit I am an ignoramus when it comes to politics and the more complex nature of human rights in a legal sense, but something ocurred to me about how we deal with Death Row prisoners (in the USA) or the High security prisoners in the UK.
Why not enlist them in the army?
Train them as specialist mercenaries, get them overseas and get them to repay their debt that way. Maybe that's just an example of my special brand of hypocrisy (I am against the Death Penalty in all circumstances) but as I have no illusions as to the existence of the thing we like to call justice - but that's another philosophical battle - instead of wasting the talent (and taxes and equipment it takes to execute these low-lives) that some of these murderers undoubtedly have, why not get them to make use of these talents in the way most appropriate. War is brilliant, if only for that reason.
As for the ones with clear mental problems, who are murderers/rapists not for their guile but out of sheer, erm, evil (?) - such as paedophiles and sexual perverts - I really don't know why we don't use them for intensive research into the way that the brain works.
When it comes to crime and punishment today, as far as I can tell, it's a weird mixture of the sloppy, the charitable and the cruel. So much for an age of Reason, though perhaps my brand of Reason is just a little cold, heh.
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