Name: Anonymous 2008-06-07 23:57
To save the planet, should we execute all prisoners of violent crime? Let's look at this rationally.
1) Climate change (global warming) is happening.
2) There is strong evidence the primary causes are anthropomorphic. Specifically, human activities which add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are warming the planet.
3) Many scientists tell us that unless we take major steps to significantly reduce mankind's carbon footprint, there is a very real chance that millions of people will die as changing climate patterns plays havoc with the food supply, intensify severe weather patterns, and stress aquifers and reservoirs, etc...
4) Violent prisoners, being imprisoned for long periods of time, contribute nothing to society and use up resources, contributing carbon into the air. To state it bluntly, they do nothing but contribute to global warming because it is almost impossible to reduce a prisoner's carbon footprint.
5) Executing prisoners would unquestionably reduce carbon output. Think of all the activities involved in housing them in prison: gas is wasted as food, medicine, supplies, etc must be delivered to them on a daily basis, guards and other personnel must drive millions of miles each year to show up to work, power plants burn coal so they can wake up under the glare of lights, all for what? So the earth can continue to warm, killing millions of people and eradicating untold species of animals?
6) If people are really in danger, this is rational.
1) Climate change (global warming) is happening.
2) There is strong evidence the primary causes are anthropomorphic. Specifically, human activities which add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are warming the planet.
3) Many scientists tell us that unless we take major steps to significantly reduce mankind's carbon footprint, there is a very real chance that millions of people will die as changing climate patterns plays havoc with the food supply, intensify severe weather patterns, and stress aquifers and reservoirs, etc...
4) Violent prisoners, being imprisoned for long periods of time, contribute nothing to society and use up resources, contributing carbon into the air. To state it bluntly, they do nothing but contribute to global warming because it is almost impossible to reduce a prisoner's carbon footprint.
5) Executing prisoners would unquestionably reduce carbon output. Think of all the activities involved in housing them in prison: gas is wasted as food, medicine, supplies, etc must be delivered to them on a daily basis, guards and other personnel must drive millions of miles each year to show up to work, power plants burn coal so they can wake up under the glare of lights, all for what? So the earth can continue to warm, killing millions of people and eradicating untold species of animals?
6) If people are really in danger, this is rational.