Originally posted by The MISTER
Not when they feel like it, it's when they eventually figure out a way how. Most prisoners will never escape just like some humans will never be astronauts...but I'd wager that more murderers escape from prison per year than the total number of new people that enter space.
Well .5% of inmates escape each year in the US. http://www.slate.com/id/1007001/
There are ~150000 murder a year in the US. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
That would be ~75 escaped murderers a year if they all were caught, except that the vast majority of that .5% is apparently people that walk out of minimum security facilities for minor crimes.
Originally posted by The MISTER
I'm not saying that it's common, just that it happens, and if we locked proven murderers in a room and did'nt open the door until they had died the cause would be that they were dangerous and thus quarantined like the viruses they were.Not every living thing should be allowed to live. There's a reason that diseases and pestilence should be fought and killed. When people become dangerous and do things that get them locked in a room and permantly cut off from all human contact until they die of thirst then they executed themselves if they are sane and they were exerminated like zombies if they're insane. Nobody murdered them, they murdered somebody and dealt with the consequences of that action.
You still haven't dealt with the right of the government to decide who lives and who dies. There are a lot of people that say "no one deserves to die" but you aren't talking to one of them right now. I'm arguing that giving any group the right to decide life and death, even for horrible people, is a bad idea.