I don't know what the current cost is but 10 years ago the cost of housing an inmate was over $50,000 a year. Assuming a 40 year life sentence that would be over 2 million. I'm pretty sure you can kill someone for less. Hell, I'd do it for half that...
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:41 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry Chuck totaly missed this one: > > I disagree. Killing a killer has value. > > It removes a threat from society. > It frees up resources needed to protect the society from that killer. > It provides a deterrent against other killings. > > > So does life in prision. > The jury is still out on that one as to cost re lifes imprisioment and > cost of the dealth penalty. > For that single indivdual yes. > > > On May 19, 1:12 am, Chuck Bowling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:23 AM, [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Why should we not? > > > > Why should we not what? > > > > > Should we instead make our selfs guilty of the same behaviour that > > > seems universal reprehensabile? Should we then sink to that level > > > ourselves? Two wrongs don't make a right and all that. > > > > My original point was that life is cheap. We don't kill because it's > right > > or wrong. We kill for expediency. > > > > > The point is to maintian that moral superiority. If a man steals from > > > me, can I then steal from him? Wouldn't that make me also a theif? > > > > Personally I don't claim any kind of superiority - moral or otherwise. If > > somebody steals from me I'll try to steal back my property and possibly > > anything else that happens to be lying around. I may even give the guy a > > punch in the nose on the way out the door. If you want to call me a thief > > for it go ahead. > > > > > revenge killings as we know only lead to further revenge killings. We > > > have here in the UK a growing youth gang problem, with kids killing > > > other kids for slights imagined or otherwise, and then in turn the > > > other gang of kids killing members of the ther other gang. Is that > > > right, it is the correct behaviour? > > > > This just leads into the whole argument - is war right or wrong. Is it > wrong > > for a street gang to retaliate when it's territory is breached by a rival > > gang? If no then why is it right for nations to do the same thing? > > > > > Killing a killer makes no logical sense. > > > > I disagree. Killing a killer has value. > > > > It removes a threat from society. > > It frees up resources needed to protect the society from that killer. > > It provides a deterrent against other killings. >
