The trials are not speedy enough. It’s all too slow.

Government should legislate a way to give sentenced for life inmates a proposition: you get just 25 years of sentence but you must sign up for super early drug tests and other experiments.

This would accelerate whole field of medicine ten fold and some ppl could also have a chance to see life outside prison as token of gratitude for their service. Win-win

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peterfirefly 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't much care what happens to most inmates but those with really long sentences should probably not be released early (or at all!) because they pose too much of a risk to the rest of us.

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epistasis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you going to give them cancer first too?

This is a horrifying proposal not only on the ethics front but also in the scientific uselessness of it.

This is exactly the type of thing that gave the Nazis the bad name they deserve.

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juleiie 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes but think of the progress. It’s a small price of just modifying rigid social contract slightly. In reality everyone wins. Lawful people get faster cures and medicine. Prisoners get a sentence cut. Even clean their names completely. It’s a great service after all. You are redeemed afterwards. It should be allowed for someone decide to do it if they want.

No one forces them to A. Commit crimes B. Undergo experiments. It would just be an option to atone for your wrongdoings and make things right with that sacrifice.

It sounds kind of beautiful even. Usually you don’t get such opportunity to make amends after you have done something terrible. You are just stuck in the prison cell for no purpose other than to rot there. It’s wasteful and useless and makes no sense. Allow these people to give back to the humanity what they took away.

I would sign it myself. Much better than dwelling in guilt for the rest of your life. Do something good for others. Truly extraordinary deed to sacrifice yourself in this way and the reward is adequate.

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wongarsu 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Until you get to the second order effects. If we want to find a cure for some disease, but we don't have enough people to do experiments on (maybe a lot of eligable prisoners died in previous trials) judges now have an incentive to hand out life sentences to people with that medical condition

Even just subconsciously that would have an effect

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juleiie 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Replace judges with artificial intelligence. People are fallible. Future AI will be not. It won’t have vices, it won’t have the burden of emotions. It cannot be bribed, threatened or blackmailed.

Justice should be blind.

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		That won't create justice, only judges that forever encode current prejudices
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		There’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite. Also the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.
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