Is common sense starting to prevail in America regarding the death penalty?

[Thorton_AP]

Unfortunately with your career predator example on the previous page Wals, is that with a death penalty you get stagnation as people argue over whether or not he should be executed or just imprisoned. This is what guard dog described in Florida.

[Walsingham]

Unfortunately with your career predator example on the previous page Wals, is that with a death penalty you get stagnation as people argue over whether or not he should be executed or just imprisoned. This is what guard dog described in Florida.

 

Chronic bureaucratic bollocks is not an excuse for doing things that are stupid. A sore point you'll find for many Britons.

[Humodour]

We could use them to colonize Mars, sort of like what the Brits did with Australia.

 

And why not? Make them useful to society instead of killing them. Or give them the option of death or Mars.

[Humodour]

Career criminals laugh their heads off at hand-wringing liberals like you. They actually despise you, but make all the right noises when you're in earshot.

 

The simple truth, so simple that supposedly educated people struggle to grasp it, is that when incarcerated the criminal is unable to break into your house and steal your stuff. Amazing, isn't it?

 

If some thieving recidivist wants to make a career out of stealing stuff from others, even if it is because he needs to put junk in his arm, then he should expect to spend a significant amount of time in prison. Screw him. Personally I'm more interested in the victims of the oxygen-thief. The victims are the people the bleeding hearts aren't very interested in, no radical crediblity there.

 

Would it be because most of the hand-wringers are middle-class, self-despising leftists who think property is theft (until they get mugged themselves, of course).

 

Since when did Monte Carlo become so outrageously bitter?

[Orogun01]

We could use them to colonize Mars, sort of like what the Brits did with Australia.

 

And why not? Make them useful to society instead of killing them. Or give them the option of death or Mars.

Right like we used to do with forced labor and how we do now with the in-prison work programs?

[Calax]

We could use them to colonize Mars, sort of like what the Brits did with Australia.

 

And why not? Make them useful to society instead of killing them. Or give them the option of death or Mars.

Wait, so what exactly are we supposed to do with them for the 4-6 month trip from earth to Mars? I mean are you just gonna lock em up in tiny cubicles and have them in chemical comas or something?

[Humodour]

Chemical comas sound yummy.

[Guard Dog]

The simple truth, so simple that supposedly educated people struggle to grasp it, is that when incarcerated the criminal is unable to break into your house and steal your stuff. Amazing, isn't it?

I will now ask a very difficult question that you right wing nuts will struggle with (apparently), but here goes: why does he break into your house and steal your stuff?

 

Remove the incentive and he won't. Amazing, isn't it?

The truth is mkreku, there are some people who simply do not or will not conform to civilized society. Stealing is easier than working with higher reward and if there is risk to it then that olnly adds to the appeal. Like it or not there are really some evil people out there. I don't think we should be killing them but I do believe it is reasonable to warehouse them in prisions somewhere they can not harm innocent people.

 

On another note I heard somone suggest that judges who parole prisioners should be imprisioned with them if they re-offend. Not going to happen obviously but it is a nice thought.

[mkreku]

The truth is mkreku, there are some people who simply do not or will not conform to civilized society. Stealing is easier than working with higher reward and if there is risk to it then that olnly adds to the appeal. Like it or not there are really some evil people out there. I don't think we should be killing them but I do believe it is reasonable to warehouse them in prisions somewhere they can not harm innocent people.

 

On another note I heard somone suggest that judges who parole prisioners should be imprisioned with them if they re-offend. Not going to happen obviously but it is a nice thought.

Funnily enough I agree with everything you write in this post. The difference is that I believe more in trying to lessen the injustices of our society than simply incarcerating the ones who are not evil to the core. I am not naive enough to believe crime will ever go away completely, but then again, my world is not just black or white.