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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (81651)6/14/2000 3:32:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The purpose of rehabilitation is penitential, to give the sinner an opportunity to pay for his wrongs. Mercy and forgiveness belong to God, but society should allow the criminal to repay as well as he can after he is convicted of a serious crime. If he fails to become rehabilitated (after, say, a first offense) then kill him.
It is a shame to execute innocent people. We should spend some money trying to find out how to tell when someone is telling the truth. Drugs, electroshock, torture, there are many possibilities. I've seen polygraph tests used on parties in civil cases with stipulation by both parties as to the conclusiveness of the results.
I would much prefer that convicted criminals be used as medical experiments or be vivisected, rather than to waste them. No use to turn 'em lose if they survive, or to care for them if they are crippled.
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