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Old 05-29-2006, 11:15 AM
bkholdem bkholdem is offline
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Default Re: Capital Punishment

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This might apply to most normal people but definely applies to a small percentage of murderers and rapists. Most people that do that type of thing don't care about right and wrong.
Perhaps they don't at the time they commit the crime, but they generally seem to later (and possibly before the time of the crime):

Last time I checked this stat was in the 90s, but it is highly telling: 90% of men who commit a violent crime before the age of 25 never do so again.

One reason, probably the primary reason, is biological: males 'calm down' considerably as they age due to biological factors, and it really starts to set in right before 25 for most men.

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Whoever said that they should spend there time being forced to do simple tasks that benifit the country has a good point.
I agree with this for people who are in prison for life, at least. Perhaps the productivity could be used to fund part of the UBI .
It makes sense about the under 25 violence stat but as a counter point here is another one psychiatrists, et all use:

The best predictor of future violence is past violence.

How many chances of murder should someone get? We are not talking about the 1 or 2 barroom fights in age 21-25 when talking about violence and prison sir.
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