Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.
Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.
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That lady watched the same episode of bleach that I did
I recently interwieved a former state prosecutor turned chief military prosecutor and his view on law is that it should be "educating" in the sense that future possible offenders would think twice about breaking the law.
Henrik Stampe, a Danish prime minister and chief general prosecutor in the 18th century who was responsible for a huge reformation in Danish criminal law advocated that offenses that didn't involve bodily harm should bear a lesser punishment, because harsher sentences wouldn't be executed as often and thus lose their preemptive effect.
What I'm trying to say, is the US has their criminal law anchored in the 18th century.
Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.
Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.
Oh good, people have decided that our justice system isn't retributive enough
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.
Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.
Oh good, people have decided that our justice system isn't retributive enough
How would that not snap a person's mind in half.
1000 years in a single room, moving in super slow motion, with no interaction with other people.
That's some brutal nonsense. It' s like the mother of all solitary confinement sentences, which are an extremely bad idea to begin with.
The only purpose for that sort of punishment is to hurt someone. It does not rehabilitate, it only harms, all so we can slap each other on the back and be happy we're hurting the bad man.
I'd be 100% against it even if we never once incarcerated an innocent person, but seriously, we incarcerate innocent people all the time. So the idea that we could be imprisoning somebody inside their mind for 1000 years when they didn't do anything is sickening.
It's like nobody has heard the "he who fights monsters" saying before.
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it would be a pretty cool supervillain origin story though
but at the end of that sentence they'd be able to play a mean flute
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1000 years in 8 hours sounds like inflicting literal hell on someone
a great movie script would be where they do that to a guy but he's genetically immune to the treatment so he has to pretend they did that to him and he has a parole officer who keeps checking up on him
and he has to be all like "man cars sure haven't gotten very much more advanced in a thousand years"
There was an Outer Limits episode about that! But they weren't using it as punishment, more as "look let's just make it FEEL like they did the full sentence so we don't have all these assholes taking up space in our prisons" and then bad stuff happened.
a great movie script would be where they do that to a guy but he's genetically immune to the treatment so he has to pretend they did that to him and he has a parole officer who keeps checking up on him
and he has to be all like "man cars sure haven't gotten very much more advanced in a thousand years"
Cars haven't advanced like, at all in the past 20 years. The differences between the McLaren F1 of 1994 and the fastest supercars we've got now are in single digit percentages.
I mean, yeah, a lot of the gadgets have changed, but the ceiling for car performance seems to be lower than we originally thought.
Also, this thing about serving 1000 years in 8 hours reminds me of that Justice League episode where Vandal Savage destroys the earth and Superman gets shot 50,000 years into the future and they become besties. Vandal Savage basically says he's going to keep on living to "serve his sentence" but wouldn't mind being vindicated. It's a pretty cool episode that sort of outlines the brutal psychological distress you'd actually have if you were functionally (literally) immortal.
All it reminds me of is the fact that not enough people watched Dredd
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.
Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.
Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.
Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.
Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.
This is an onion article only real
There are real people really working on this
My genuine hope is that there are actual people working on that technology for reasons over than torture.
Then these assholes turned up and are basically making the observation 'hey this incredible set of technological advances that could be used for all manner of things could also be used to torture prisoners to get our justice rocks off'.
That's some brutal nonsense. It' s like the mother of all solitary confinement sentences, which are an extremely bad idea to begin with.
The only purpose for that sort of punishment is to hurt someone. It does not rehabilitate, it only harms, all so we can slap each other on the back and be happy we're hurting the bad man.
I'd be 100% against it even if we never once incarcerated an innocent person, but seriously, we incarcerate innocent people all the time. So the idea that we could be imprisoning somebody inside their mind for 1000 years when they didn't do anything is sickening.
It's like nobody has heard the "he who fights monsters" saying before.
i'm curious how many people wouldn't commit suicide going through this
i'm also curious if a brain can even survive undergoing 1000 years
It's all philosophy and theoretical future science right now, but it's beyond stupid that we're already thinking of how such a thing could be used to make the world worse.
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado's second-highest court ruled Thursday that some people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana can ask for those convictions to be thrown out under the law that legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
Also I don't smoke weed but I did vote for legalization, but goddamn I'm annoyed with how people are starting to act now. WA already has an indoor smoking ban and supposed to be no smoking within 25 feet of any entrances, but a few days ago when we had our first sunny day over 60 degrees I head out walking and the entire two blocks around my building were basically hotboxed. People were just walking down the street or standing in groups outside coffee shops blazing or hitting vap pens. It was thick, it reeked, and this was also one block from a school.
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the 25 feet rule has always been bullshit
I mean you can't smoke on the sidewalk in most of the city
I will also say that since legalization, drug dealers have gotten way more polite
now when I turn them down, they tell me to have a nice day instead of to go fuck myself
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Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'
Henrik Stampe, a Danish prime minister and chief general prosecutor in the 18th century who was responsible for a huge reformation in Danish criminal law advocated that offenses that didn't involve bodily harm should bear a lesser punishment, because harsher sentences wouldn't be executed as often and thus lose their preemptive effect.
What I'm trying to say, is the US has their criminal law anchored in the 18th century.
Oh good, people have decided that our justice system isn't retributive enough
How would that not snap a person's mind in half.
1000 years in a single room, moving in super slow motion, with no interaction with other people.
It's 9am and now I need a drink.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/honolulu-cops-want-legal-exemption-so-they-can-have-sex-with-prostitutes/
The only purpose for that sort of punishment is to hurt someone. It does not rehabilitate, it only harms, all so we can slap each other on the back and be happy we're hurting the bad man.
I'd be 100% against it even if we never once incarcerated an innocent person, but seriously, we incarcerate innocent people all the time. So the idea that we could be imprisoning somebody inside their mind for 1000 years when they didn't do anything is sickening.
It's like nobody has heard the "he who fights monsters" saying before.
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and he has to be all like "man cars sure haven't gotten very much more advanced in a thousand years"
Cars haven't advanced like, at all in the past 20 years. The differences between the McLaren F1 of 1994 and the fastest supercars we've got now are in single digit percentages.
I mean, yeah, a lot of the gadgets have changed, but the ceiling for car performance seems to be lower than we originally thought.
Also, this thing about serving 1000 years in 8 hours reminds me of that Justice League episode where Vandal Savage destroys the earth and Superman gets shot 50,000 years into the future and they become besties. Vandal Savage basically says he's going to keep on living to "serve his sentence" but wouldn't mind being vindicated. It's a pretty cool episode that sort of outlines the brutal psychological distress you'd actually have if you were functionally (literally) immortal.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
There are real people really working on this
My genuine hope is that there are actual people working on that technology for reasons over than torture.
Then these assholes turned up and are basically making the observation 'hey this incredible set of technological advances that could be used for all manner of things could also be used to torture prisoners to get our justice rocks off'.
i'm curious how many people wouldn't commit suicide going through this
i'm also curious if a brain can even survive undergoing 1000 years
It would be 1000 years in a instant, they wouldn't have the chance
Edit: Reread the article. Woops guess its actually 8 hours.
Yeah there would be a hideously high suicide rate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/colorado-marijuana-convictions_n_4957887.html
Also I don't smoke weed but I did vote for legalization, but goddamn I'm annoyed with how people are starting to act now. WA already has an indoor smoking ban and supposed to be no smoking within 25 feet of any entrances, but a few days ago when we had our first sunny day over 60 degrees I head out walking and the entire two blocks around my building were basically hotboxed. People were just walking down the street or standing in groups outside coffee shops blazing or hitting vap pens. It was thick, it reeked, and this was also one block from a school.
I mean you can't smoke on the sidewalk in most of the city
I will also say that since legalization, drug dealers have gotten way more polite
now when I turn them down, they tell me to have a nice day instead of to go fuck myself