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Old 08-22-2009, 03:57 AM   #41 (permalink)
Flinx
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru View Post
I don't see how dying cancer patients are a grave threat to anyone. I've seen it before, and what it tells me is that it doesn't quite matter where you are in the days before the disease claims you—you aren't going anywhere.

And wouldn't it have cost more to care for him in prison rather than send him to his family?
It depends on the type of cancer as to how mobile you are in your final few. But we are talking months right now not days. One of my uncles that died of prostrate cancer was fairly mobile, painfully yes, right up till his last 2 weeks with his family. Bone cancer on the other hand makes your last 3 to 4 months a pure living hell that all you want to do is die and don't have enough in you to try. Lung cancer is again different. As well as all the other types and since people react differently with each type, degree of pain and mobility in the final month or so varies extremely.

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Originally Posted by Crompsin View Post
Hey, maybe they'll give him a travel size boombox as a parting gift.

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Me? I love how expensive "compassion" is... how ridiculous it is to lock away a man for the "rest of his life" only to let him out because he's gonna die soon.

It would have been cheaper and more humane to put a rifle round in the guy's forehead 20 years ago.

I'm sure everybody gained a whole lot from keeping this individual in a box for what amounts to my time here on Earth.
Yes it would have been more humane but then the human race is not really humane as a group but individuals can be. But I can think of one reason not to kill him out right, why make him a martyr? As a martyr his fellow believers think he is in their version of heaven, in jail they think he's being punished for years and might lose his beliefs.
In jail he serves a purpose, dead he's focal point for his cause.
We didn't "gain" anything really but we also didn't give them a martyr to the cause. Propaganda is a wonderful thing, when it's on your side.
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