(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Antonin Scriabin]

"Finally, in my opinion it is not the money spent housing the convicted or
defending the accused but the money spent killing foreigners by the US
military that deserves to be spent on the homeless---and in any case it's a
fairly awful argument to make that we should kill criminals so we can house
homeless men and women (in conditions equal to prison or worse) instead of
fixing the grossly inequitable economic and social structures that led to
the medical poverty, unemployment, addiction, and mental illness which
caused or prolongs their homelessness in the first place."

I couldn't agree more.  Skipping to the sad end (questions of the death
penalty, incarceration for life, etc.) without addressing the deep-rooting
sociological ills of society that result in these situations is fruitless.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au>wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Matthew Knight wrote:
>
>  OK, veering.  Gwern has already addressed the likelihood of repeat
>> offenses.  But if this remains your position, for justice's sake there has
>> to be not the slightest shred of doubt of the executee's guilt.
>>
>
> "It is better for 99 individuals to suffer unjustly than one guilty person
> escape his punishment."  I think that's in _The Space Merchants_ ;)
>
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