Mark Rippetoe the author of the book "Starting Strength".
Mark Rippetoe the author of the book "Starting Strength".
So apparently in 3 days Trump mobs and BLM puppets are going to swarm capital hill, allegedly. Looks like the political shit show isn't ending anytime soon
@TheStoicCrane I don't think it's rocket science. Right now the US is almost 100% geared towards capitalist efficiency, scrapping even a basic social net. Instead of the fruits of capitalism "trickling down", this has severely negative impacted even the life of middle class, let alone the lower classes. The even the post-WWII right-wing politics for a welfare state are tabbed "socialism" and discredited, and not only by Trump, but by Democrats too. Instead of letting a bit of a pressure out, the US ruling class goes full steam, and practically accepts the human cost.
So yeah, let's imprison and execute the monsters we produce, so that everyone sees it's all about the degeneracy of those individuals.
@adam-l That begs the question, how accountable should the system be held for these peoples' development?
Granted, it may not have offered necessary support to help these individuals develop into functional members of society but at the same token the system didn't create these people as the wealthy mother and father "created" their lobe deficient offspring. Offspring whose course in life directly impacts the status, reputation, and bearing of it's esteemed family.
Arguably anyone willing to commit and conspire non-defensive murder and acts of sexual assault is mentally deficient to some degree. How can the system reasonably hope to establish programs and effectively allot resources in a way that'll sway them from degeneracy that isn't just as wasteful if not more than the present prison system?
Read More@destraht All the more beneficial if the accused is a high profile celebrity like Kobe Bryant, Mike Tyson, and the like. By no means are they incapable of it, they're human, but there's certainly incentive to make claims against people like them. Or anyone marginally wealthier than the accuser, really.
Sapolski discusses two men with the same kind of frontal lobe deficiency. One is from a rich family, and receives care and support growing up. The other is from a poor one, and is left to his own devices.
The first ends up obnoxious, to the point of insisting all the relatives sit through his piano performances in family meetings. The second, a serial rapist and killer.
Sure, every man is reaponsible for himself, to a degree. But the problem with the death sentence is that is exonerates the system from its own responsibility.
The US is an extreme case. It has about 10 times the rape rate, and more than that on murders, than civilised Europe. It is by design. Supporting the death sentence means supporting the system.
They must be saved by putting them in a place filled with like minded individuals and paid for by the hard working people of the country!
Saved for what?! Private prison extortion of honest worker's tax dollars? Those piles of human garbage literally have nothing to contribute to societal uplift. If their existence is completely detrimental it's mental to keep them around.
@adam-l At the very least the judiciary system should at least execute these worthless bastards to conserve taxpayer money to direct it towards more suitable aims then waste it keeping these existential liabilities alive.
The thought of my hard earned money being used to keep serial rapist/murderers, women & men who conspire to kill their partners for life insurance and the like is beyond vile. Death Row is prolonged so if someone is innocently convicted there's time for exonerating evidence to manifest.
If through forensics and circumstantial evidence a pos is unmistakably tied to a heinous crime what reason is there to keep them alive? They're obviously beyond "corrections" and "rehabilitation" if they prey on the vulnerable and dismember their targets like butchered meat to conceal evidence.
If they think nothing of raping another man's daughter and discard her like a soiled sock after brutally violating her are they really going to "straighten up" and reintegrate back into society like a good little citizen? Is life behind bars really going to make them realize the error of their ways when in the act their sense of conscience was too frail to kick in?
I don't care if the perpetrator has an IQ of 1. If they commit such atrocious actions they don't deserve to exist and the fact that the system that should deliver this form of punishment has gone soft to almost enabling savage criminality is deeply disturbing.
They know given a life term they'll have gruel, and jumpsuit, and a cage for the rest of their miserable lives without ever working again. In a twisted way to alot of them it's almost incentive.
Read More@TheStoicCrane the tragedy in the US is more the production of such monsters, rather than their execution or not.
@RedPirate751 So people in the US so cowardly they'd rather let a serial rapist who butchered women and tossed their decapitated head & limbs in reclusive lakes live then condemn the pos to death for being a heinous monster?
That really says little for the States. As much flak as countries like China and Iraq get, that type of garbage is completely intolerable there.