From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 11:56:37 MST
Randall Randall wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> On a more practical note, I could live with the anti-death-penaltists
>> (should we call them "pro-lifers"?) paying for the indefinite
>> incarceration of those I deem worthy of being killed. If I am not
>> forced to feed a murderer, and he is effectively neutralized, I will
>> be satisfied.
>>
>> Now, how much of your own money would you personally pay to feed
>> murderers in prisons? Are you going to support your high-minded
>> moral sentiments with cold, hard cash?
>
> None. I am against the death penalty, since one can't ever know that
> the guilty are guilty with absolute certainty. Suggesting that the
> innocent should pay for the incarceration of criminals, however, is
> silly; criminals are presumably there because they are guilty, and if
> not, one can pay compensation when it becomes clear that they aren't.
> If they're irrecoverably dead, you can't repay them. If they're on
> ice or otherwise stored, someone has to pay for the storage. If they
> are merely incarcerated, they can pay their own way (or choose to die,
> of course).
### OK, you don't want to pay. You won't let me kill the bad guy (who, say,
killed my wife). What do you want to do? Let him go free, and keep killing?
Maybe make me pay for the incarceration? Let the incarcerated starve if they
can't come up with the cash?
Which solution do you propose?
Rafal
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