Death Penalty and Deterring Crime

[jaguar]

I have to agree with sycamore, but yes, it does tend to make people go insane, oddly enough but goddamn, i doubt any of those people are going to be released again anyway.
Supermax's are for people who need to be kept a long way from any other human life, they aren't getting out into the public again in most cases, i think that’s the best substitute for the death penalty, which really, is too light, just think, I can kill 168 people for my cause, then be put painlessly to sleep after incredible media attention

As for school killings, i think they are simply of product of a very fucked up generation which I’m member of, caused by a very fucked up society. While i am not even going to suggest justifying those very sick individuals at columbine (I find arguments like ‘temporary insanity sickening, people have to take responsibility for their actions and a lot of things would be solved, like stupid legal cases) and others i have seen first hand how the system tends to handle those kids with problems, drug em up, dump them in a center for a while and they'll be fine, all it does it fuck them up further DRUGS DO NOT SOLVE PHYCOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN KIDS when you've been abused by your parents, ostracized by your peers, ignored by your teachers, teased, bullied and abused its too bloody late in allot of cases, i know kids who want to 'pull a columbine' thank god they can't get guns, they all have been directed to overworked physiologists who give them perceptions and that’s it. Time to tackle the SOCIOECONOMIC causes for these things, coz its time to face the ugly truth that these kids are the sons of the problem in society, the growing poverty gap, apathy, disillusionment, society has stopped caring, and this is what happens. I know the ‘these were just normal kids we didn’t see it coming’ argument, and sorry, but its bullshit, if you don’t notice you kids doing these things, or multiple guns and bombs in there rooms you’ve got to stop working the 12 hours days and maybe just spend a millionth of your day with them. I personally spend buggar all time with my mum (split up parents) but I spend enough that she knows who I am at least…
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