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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (5027)	7/9/2001 6:56:40 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Have you ever read the Heinlein novella 'Coventry'? (I think it's that one, anyhow...). It portrays what might happen. I'm not convinced, however. Alternatively, do you think that the British and French experiments proved the concept? Australia was used as a prison ground, the French were rather closer to your 'no help' concept with Devil's Island... and of course there's the experience of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn, except that this wasn't originally uninhabited. I do think there could be a lot of support for deportation to (say) Spitsbergen... somewhere where if anyone wanted to survive, co-operation would be pretty much forced. But I'm not sure that as a society simply removing those unwanted is ethically desirable, however tempting the idea - and however much cheaper than prisons &c.