(May 28, 2015 at 3:16 pm)wallym Wrote:(May 28, 2015 at 11:07 am)Anima Wrote: Furthermore, why are we rehabilitating at all. The perpetrator is reacting or acting according to a predetermined set of responses. There is no person (or no person who can resist the predetermined responses), so why not just kill every offender from the offset and be done with it? The program of this meat does not fit with the program of the rest of the meat. One does not try to rehabilitate a bad apple into a good one for the sake of the bunch. One just discards said apple. More to the point we were predetermined in our action and thus bare no liability for responding to our stimuli to kill them for their infraction immediately.
Think of it as a computer program. It's a bug fix. We try to fix the code, because our code might break someday, or the code of someone we're programmed to care about's code may break. And we'd want them to be fixed as well, rather than trashed.
And you absolutely can just kill every offender. That's certainly an option. Plenty of people have throughout history, and many still do. But our current programming seems to have identified some societal consequences to that which for the most part keeps up from using that strategy at this time in most of the 1st world countries.
Sounds like the computer program has acquired a bug we must fix that was not there at the outset of the programs.
