Hear Me Out First.
And please answer with sense. I'm asking a legitimate question.
I mean what is the use of providing food, shelter and cable tv. The general things for them, if there is no chance for them getting out ever and leading a normal life. There are just going to die in there so what's the use of keeping them alive in prisons?
Same with the mentaly ill, why keep them on this earth, if they are typically of no use.
Why not make them useful as test subjects because that is the only way we will every know if a certain drug works on humans. And there is a surplus. of them. I mean think of all we could really learn if tested on humans. Think of how far science could advance.
Please give a reasonable answer, as to why or why not.
Also if you are offended I cry your pardon.
2007-12-01 22:52:11 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that you are trying to ask this question to get thoughts and opinions, and not just to anger people. You have worded it well.
The flaw in such a practice is just as many before me have mentioned. Who is to decide such a thing? My brother is in his 10th year of his prison term. My mother has been in and out (mostly in) of mental institutions for the last 32 years. So I
guess that would leave me out.
Both of these people have been of use--to me at least. My brother made terrible mistakes for which he is paying. Each prisoner is important to someone. They are more than just a sum of their crimes--they are parents, sons and daughters, siblings,--human. How they are treated, regardless of their crimes, reflects upon us as a society.
And the mentally ill? They are ILL. Theirs is a chronic condition, no less deserving of respect than those with heart disease, kidney failure, etc. Are we to assume that the next on this list of 'test subjects' could be the autistic child?
It's a slippery, amoral, inhumane slope. At least from my vantage point.
2007-12-02 02:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mandy--relatively harmless 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am extremely offended by your way of thinking… everything you ask is really messed up.
Prison/penal system were set up to punish bad behavior, to right a wrong. I don’t believe they should have things that some free citizens would consider luxuries. But tagging them all with a death verdict IS NOT a normal or healthy way of thinking.
And For your thoughts on disabled people… I can only pray you become one.
Do you not think disabled people have feelings? Do you not think that they have brains?
Do you not think they have nerves? OMG I could go on forever…
Where in the world did you develop this way of thinking? How can a person answer your question without showing some kind of disgust towards you and your question?
Reasonable?!?!? Reasonable!!!!
2007-12-02 07:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by Spirit 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If I recall, Hitler did just what you are proposing. I don't think he came out with any great discoveries. We are all used as test subjects for certain drugs. That is why there are so many lawsuits regarding them. God provided for "gleanings" for the unfortunates in society in the Law Covenant. Of course they had to harvest the gleanings themselves which involved work of a sort, so too, we have to take care of the lesser people of our society. The bible says the strong should help the weak. Acts20:35.
In prisons, inmates are able to volunteer for drug testing, so the program is already in place to a certain extent.
2007-12-03 15:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think a great majority of people out there believe that every life has a purpose and every life is special.
-even the lives of prisoners, and definitely the lives of the mentally ill.
I also think the vast majority of people have learned from history that respecting human rights, and life in general is what is best for all of mankind.
I am not offended by your question, but only shaking my head, and asking myself, "is this guy serious?". The Nazi's did alot of what you are suggesting. So I can't help but think either you're NOT serious, or you think like Hitler.
2007-12-02 07:08:01 · answer #4 · answered by blujello 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You obviously have not heard about being payed for medical tests. Many people do this for some extra cash or even for a living. So, don't concern yourself, drugs are being tested on humans. About culling surplus humans, define surplus human. You sit in your comfortable house, debating comfortably on the internet. You have never been without a home i am sure. For your sake i hope you never are because then you will experience what it feels like to have to steal or maybe even kill in order to survive. You have to obey your primal instincts, do or die. However, a comfortable society condemns people who need to steal or kill in order to survive and lock them up in prisons and label them criminals. Now you want to condemn them further and subject them to torture and abuse. Is it not enough for you that their freedom is taken from them so that you can live your comfortable life in your advantaged society, which might i add was build by the your slaves and the wealth that you took forcefully from other societies. Your comfort came at a cost, one that you obviously are not aware about!!!
2007-12-02 07:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by Natural Order 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The answer is simple; Human rights.
Once you allow one transgression on people's human rights, others will follow. Soon it will move from disabled people and prisoners to black people and whoever else the government thinks of as "wasteful".
The fact of the matter is, the government should be subject to the will of the people, and by giving the decision that much power, you are essentially creating a dictatorship where all human life is worthless.
2007-12-02 07:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by The Bassline Libertine 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who's really to say if this or that person can or cannot lead a supposedly "normal" life? And of course, who would decide this, if it came to be?
Trust me, it would only be a matter of time before they came looking for you, claiming that you "are of no use to anyone anyway"
The true answer to this of course lies with God. God is the one who gives everyone life, and every human life has importance and meaning to God. All of them (and all of us too) are here for a reason - there are no coincidences or accidents. Everything happens by design.
2007-12-02 07:15:09 · answer #7 · answered by the phantom 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I suspect you know about the lemmings?.... I believe there will be a 'culling'.... but no one will be in charge of it.... and we won't get out of it, either.... Nature will strike a balance one day and the over-abundance of people on the planet will be brought into line, naturally...........
as for the nearer future, the BabyBoomers will soon be gone..... inside of 40 years...... what's that?... how many just in this country?...76 million?....... yeah.. should open up some elbow room then....this will be a very different world in 2050.....
2007-12-02 09:11:54 · answer #8 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
And with the loss of respect for human life comes this! You are exactly what we Catholics have been concerned with. Eugenics. Look it up as the founder of Planned Parenthood believed much the same. All humans have the same right to life regardless of physical, mental, emotional, or financial ability.
2007-12-02 07:04:00 · answer #9 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I suppose you would have approved of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Atomic Energy Commission radiation experiments.
Who decides what is "normal"? Consider the contribution made to avian pathology by Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer.
2007-12-02 07:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by babydoll 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋