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- Dec 7, 2015
Life in prison is way more based than the dealth penalty. Once the death penalty has been carried out, that's it. They don't exist anymore and can't suffer for the damage they've caused. Kept alive -- either in PC where he'll be driven insane by the isolation or in genpop where he'll have to worry about getting raped or beaten every second of every day for being a pedo and a child killer (and if he survives that, he'll be thrown into an extended PC stay were he'll be driven insane; wash, rinse, repeat) -- and combined with the restitution order and prison work paying a few cents an hour into a commissary account subject to the restitution order meaning he won't ever be able to afford so much as a packet of ramen noodles without having to suck dick or give up his asshole for it and will have to eat the genpop slop or PC nutriloaf, etc. etc. is a way better punishment specifically because it's crueler and more painful.
Our reptile brains may tell us that death is the "harsher" and thus more fitting punishment, but it's really not. Once he's humanely euthanized, his punishment ends and thus his suffering ends while his victims still suffer.
In an ideal future, we'll not just do away with the death penalty, we'll figure out a way to keep someone's consciousness intact after the death of their physical body so that it can continue to suffer the full sentence they were given. What's more fitting? This guy gets a tiny, painless needle prick in his arm and humanely given a sedative to render him unconscious before drugs to arrest his breathing and stop his heart are administered and he basically just falls asleep and never wakes up, or this prick gets beaten, shanked and ass-raped for the next half-century, after which his consciousness is uploaded into a mainframe and still suffering and being driven insane hundreds of years from now when humans have colonized Alpha Centauri or whatever?
Our reptile brains may tell us that death is the "harsher" and thus more fitting punishment, but it's really not. Once he's humanely euthanized, his punishment ends and thus his suffering ends while his victims still suffer.
In an ideal future, we'll not just do away with the death penalty, we'll figure out a way to keep someone's consciousness intact after the death of their physical body so that it can continue to suffer the full sentence they were given. What's more fitting? This guy gets a tiny, painless needle prick in his arm and humanely given a sedative to render him unconscious before drugs to arrest his breathing and stop his heart are administered and he basically just falls asleep and never wakes up, or this prick gets beaten, shanked and ass-raped for the next half-century, after which his consciousness is uploaded into a mainframe and still suffering and being driven insane hundreds of years from now when humans have colonized Alpha Centauri or whatever?