2. return to society with the harm being neutralized - any alterations must 100% be the choice of the individual (e.g. a serial rapist could elect to be castrated, a kleptomaniac or stalker could elect for permanent tracking via microchip, etc)

We kinda do this already with ankle monitors, not that I think subdermal tracking would be any less fallible.

As long as murder is unacceptable in society, it’s the price you pay for the privilege of stripping someone else’s rights from them.

Therein’s the rub, see. That’s the price to be paid for one person. If the murder of one enriches the many, maybe it was worth it. And since not everyone values lives equally, not everyone can have a unanimous take.

IMO, the only valid use of lethal force is if there’s no valid alternative option to protect innocent lives. I would kill if it directly spared innocent lives, but not if there’s any possibility of protecting innocent lives another way.

I laud you for having and knowing your heirarchy of values, I am still (and quite possibly forever will be) determining my own red lines.

I skipped incarceration because you’d already expressed it as preferable to capital punishment.

It’s only inhumane if they’re no longer a danger to society.

I cannot agree there. Unless you’re arguing that “everything is legitimate” in the case of dangerous individuals, I imagine you don’t really believe that either.

Rehabilitation is always the goal, but in instances where it is unachievable and the perpetrator is reasonably expected to remain unrepentant, is keeping them alive and imprisoned for life at the expense of law-abiding citizens the way forward? Would they not grow resentful of having to support those who do not follow the social contract?

When you say “least amount of force”, what do you mean?

Intimidation? Lobotomies? Brainwashing?

At what point does keeping someone alive but “neutralized” become inhumane?

I heard it was a tragic stroke. An act of God if ever there was one.

We must protect out prescious gays

I mean, yes? But also no?

The US famously lost to poorly equipped guerillas on at leat two occasions (Vietnam and Afghanistan).

Yeah, well, missiles are supposed to crash into things. The right things? Not his job.

Welcome hearty “welcome back” to dogfighting tactics!

I’m kind amazed that Maine got 7. Good on them.

Thanks for making it possible to continue enjoying these most lauded Military Savants from my chosen instance!

Ehh, they have knock-on uncertainties. Especially if you are financially hurting.

Could also be their shit credit rating playing into that.

What behaviour was this colleague exhibiting that made you forget to never put anything unofficial in writing?

I believe getting rid of innate alignments was the right choice. The racism might have been why, but the issue I always took with it was the alignments being too broad and ill-defined.

Sphinxes or lamia. The cruel intelligence of man with the refined predatory abilities of felids/snakes. What a match!

On the other hand, a severe degradation of federal institutions would by necessity promote community-based cooperation. Like in any other disaster, natural or otherwise.

Nobody wants to see it happen this way, but it might be the catalyst we get.

Bold of you to assume I didn’t build my battlestation around the shitter.

Biden, your words mean less than dick at this point. Try some action.

Could embiggen it by a factor of 10 by removing the gender marker.

Even if they did, you think they’d get it released? They saw what happened to the Heritage Foundation following the leak of P’25.