(June 17, 2011 at 4:26 pm)martin02 Wrote:(June 17, 2011 at 2:19 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Lets just leave that serial killer locked away in his cell for the rest of his pointless existence so that he can consume food which could be going to starving children then eh?
Lol I know that. I was just having a little fun with him.
Let's extend this fun argument, then...
We could save a lot more food and oxygen by immediately killing all the murderers, rapists, petty criminals, political dissidents, unproductive citizens ...
Having fun yet?
I know that I am! ^_^
Quote:The point is not that it's onerous to imprison the bad, or even what they deserve; it's what we deserve as a society. Clarke had an intriguing phrase, "Crime was a luxury Mercury could not afford." We can afford to not kill our enemies.
Sure. But it is so much simpler a thing to do. Keeping them alive is a multistep process. Killing them is really easy.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
