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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    11/25/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    I was pretty disturbed by this article as I usually am when I read things about people getting death sentences. I must say though, the comments really showed it up. I can't believe how lightly some people are suggesting offing human beings. I do not want to get into a debate over this, but to simply express my incredulity with regards to some of the attitudes here.
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    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    11/25/09

    @Jacubious: I know you're not looking for a debate but... you read the article right? The dude plead guilty (repeat... PLEAD GUILTY) to kidnapping, raping and killing a 10-y-o girl. He was already serving 2 life sentences for 2 other murders. I wouldn't necessarily consider this an act of nonchalantly "offing human beings".
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    11/25/09

    @EpiphyteCorp.: What particularly got me was people saying that those who are considered psychopaths, based on scans indicating malfunctioning brains, should be killed as they cannot be fixed anyways. The implications of statements to those ends are frightening in many ways.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/24/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    Wooo! Death penalty!
    This article had a happy ending.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/24/09

    @Duckspwn:

    *does a tap dance*
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/24/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    Strikes me as a darned good reason to kill him, since apparently his brain architecture will prevent rehabilitation. One would think that defense counsel would be a bit leery of this avenue, as it seems fraught with danger for defendants.
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    Image of Covertghost Covertghost
    11/24/09

    @Canoehead: Wait... using the penal institutions to rehabilitate?

    Madness.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/24/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    Pop a xanax.
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    11/25/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: COMMON side effects persist or become bothersome when using Xanax:

    Changes in appetite; changes in sexual desire; constipation; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; increased saliva production; lightheadedness; tiredness; trouble concentrating; unsteadiness; weight changes.

    No rape/ murder here.

    I approve ;)
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    I don't think anyone should be subject to the death penalty ever, but I also think that people who suffer from psychosis or who are pscyho/sociopaths should not be lumped in with the general prison populace. Let's rehabilitate the healthy and treat the mentally unsound.

    Now excuse me as I hop off of my liberal sociologist soapbox.
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    11/24/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I believe the death sentence can be justified. I don't believe it's right for our tax dollars to be spent on keeping some sick son of a bitch pedophilic rapist in jail getting free food and a place to stay for the rest of his life. They're not doing anything for society, they're simply wasting money.

    But I live in Canada, where we don't do the death penalty. I don't hate my government for it, but I sure wish it would change one day. Or at least exile people haha
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    11/24/09

    @Nathan Obbards: John Allen Muhammad, infamous "Beltway Sniper" and would-be terrorist network mastermind, was put to death recently.

    He demonstrated an ability to identify impressionable youths and develop them into serial killers. An innocent pen-pal relationship or a friendship with a soon-to-be-released convict is an opening to further extend his reach, even from behind bars.

    I feel that his death was absolutely right, not as punishment for a series of horrifying and unforgivable acts, but as a necessary means to snuff out the influence of a dangerous man.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    @SJRNWT: I just believe in a reform system, not a retributive system. Most prisons in the US just teach criminals how to become worse criminals, they don't give them the skill sets to go on to lead decent lives and to get a real job. As for the tax dollars bit, there is no consensus on whether the execution is actually cheaper. Some have analyzed it and found the death penalty to be more expensive than life imprisonment while others have found it to be cheaper. I just take a moral stand that killing someone is very rarely right. There is no added utility in killing someone who is sentenced to life in prison and sometimes they even produce something worthwhile. Not only that, but if new evidence comes to life that absolves them, we won't have killed an innocent person, something that has happened too often in Texas.

    As for exiling people, I mean, isn't that how the great nation of Australia started? It literally is a nation of pirates, murderers, rapists, and thieves.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    @tomsomething: You could just screen/block all of his letters. Also, people who are in prison for life without parole are generally kept separate from the rest of the prison population.
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    Image of G.O.D. G.O.D.
    11/24/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I have an Idea how about dispose of, kill, or use for medical testing, all the criminals and psycho/sociopaths. Then spend the money we would have wasted trying to rehabilitate or treat them on people that are already productive members of society by rewarding them for doing a great job with education and training to better themselves, their lives and everything around them. If you reward bad behavior you will get behavior.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    @G.O.D.: I wanted to go Godwin on you, but refrained. Instead I shall leave you with this: [en.wikipedia.org] as well as the fact that rehabilitative/restorative justice tends to create better results than retributive justice.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/24/09

    @Nathan Obbards: When you rape and murder a ten year old little girl, taking your life is not cruel or unusual. You want cruel? Hand him over to me.

    With that, I've been in trouble for politically debating on here, so I will take the rest of my opinions and run.

    That flash of light? That was me, I be runnin.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/24/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Haha, yeah, I had to say it, but knew I was opening a can when I said it. It boils down to personal ethics. My ethical stance is that it's immoral, but others have good arguments for the justice of it.
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    Image of chapoec chapoec
    11/25/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Come on you don't believe that bastard sniper deserved to be put to death. Stop being such a bleeding hearth liberal. If it was your mother, father, sibling, or friend that was killed by this bitch you would think differently. The death penalty should be used for the most heinous murderers like the DC Sniper.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/25/09

    @chapoec: If it was my mother, sister, father, or friend, I would feel the same way that he should be shown grace and not killed. Be it from a philosophical utilitarian perspective or a religious perspective, I could not justify killing someone for the evil they have committed.

    Additionally, I am not stupid. Grad schools, especially mine, don't allow dumbasses in. Nice ad hominem attack. In context, my statement makes perfect sense. Some forms of execution do fall under cruel and unusual, hence why there was a hiatus on all execution via lethal injection and why the gas chamber is no longer used. Beyond that, I was pointing out how medical testing would most definitely fall under cruel and unusual.

    I don't believe anyone is entitled to the death penalty, but that is my moral paradigm built upon the moral philosophies I adhere to. You are entitled to my beliefs and I mine. Do I believe yours are wrong? Yes, but I'm not going to be an ass about it.
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    11/25/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I believe in the death penalty. :)
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    Image of chapoec chapoec
    11/25/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Yes you are right in a debate it is a weak fallacy to attack the opponent instead of the issue. But hey this is gizmodo not academia.

    #tips
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/25/09

    @chapoec: One should always argue intelligently lest the unintelligent/fallacious forms of arguing seep into those arenas where intelligent argument is necessary.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/24/09

    In reply to How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
    And what's to distinguish guilt of a murder from guilt from infidelity.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/25/09

    In reply to Touchy Feely Robot Promises to be Gentle (and Check for Cancer)
    Caption contest!

    "Hey lady...you okay?"
    "I have to clean the floor in here."
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    Image of infmom infmom
    08/20/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    If we gave you any kind of equipment? Is that an admission you guys are not well equipped?
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/20/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    Some guys can get an erection anywhere! This guy has a future in pron! He has nothing to hide at this point, that's for sure.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/20/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    I have to admit, there is something magnetic about these images.
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    08/19/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    Oh baby. Seeing them squishy piles of guts heave is just making me crazy.

    In all seriousness, that's one of the most disgustingly curious things I've ever seen, and something I never want to see again.
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    08/19/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    i couldn't help but notice all the movement of the organs in that woman. Was that her bladder bouncing up and down? Wow.
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    Image of marythegr8 marythegr8
    08/19/09

    @Mark 2000: As a woman, I was equally amazed at the organ movement. Yikes!
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    Image of iamnotafish iamnotafish
    08/19/09

    @Mark 2000: It was ... disturbing.
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    Image of luisgoesrawr luisgoesrawr
    08/20/09

    @iamnotafish: more than that it looked painfulllll as helllllll
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    Image of butternine butternine
    08/20/09

    @luisgoesrawr: Hmmm, I what her organs would look like if it were Ron Jeremy *shudders*
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    08/19/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    Liszt must be happy in his grave knowing that Hungarian Rhapsody n.2 was used to close such a video research.
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    08/19/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    That's... a lot of shifting around, I should say. o_o
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    Image of TrollSlayer TrollSlayer
    08/19/09

    In reply to MRI Video of Two People Having Sex Is, Uh, Really Something (NSFW)
    This answers absolutely no questions for the gay community.
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