Death Penalty

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I agree with this 100% in principle but I can't see it working in practice. Prisons would actively encourage suicide by abusing prisoners.

I'm not following your reasoning on this

It's just human nature.

What kind of person chooses to work as a prison guard? Not a social progressive. Such a person would be unlikely to pursue such a career path. A prison guard is likely to be a social conservative. On top of this, such a person is constantly exposed to the dregs of humanity. Knowing these prisoners had easy access to an, "off switch", don't you see that they would have a temptation to encourage prisoners to avail themselves to this option? It would certainly make their job easier.

I'm about as socially liberal as they come and I can tell you if that if I were a prison guard, I would be highly tempted to encourage violent prisoners to select this option. It's certainly an option I would select if I were in their place.

Easy, assisted suicide might seem attractive on the surface but if you think about it closely, it is unethical. The only way it would be ethical is if the guards were completely unemotional robots that had no emotional investment in whether a prisoner chose suicide or not.