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Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
Theory: when you make a mistake and murder 70 innocent kids, you forfeit your value to society. Prison for life keeps you from making another whoopsie but the damage you've done transcends that.

The community feels vulnerable after a core belief, like "my kids can go to camp and not be brutally massacred" is challenged.

Sadistically executing the killer is more for the victims and community as a whole to feel safer. It doesn't matter if it prevents anything because it helps to restore confidence in society.

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jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Bishop posted:

Theory: when you make a mistake and murder 70 innocent kids, you forfeit your value to society. Prison for life keeps you from making another whoopsie but the damage you've done transcends that.

The community feels vulnerable after a core belief, like "my kids can go to camp and not be brutally massacred" is challenged.

Sadistically executing the killer is more for the victims and community as a whole to feel safer. It doesn't matter if it prevents anything because it helps to restore confidence in society.

I kind of agree with this.

Also let's say I am a dad and my daughter one day comes home with a black eye (I am never having children so don't worry about this and I am not even a male anyway). Anyway, as a dad I ask her how she got it and she sobs "it was him again".

I would seriously sit there and consider going to her boyfriend's house and blasting double o buck right through his skull if I knew I'd be lounging in my pajamas playing Ridge Racer the rest of my life as punishment. Like, it would be something I could live with. I'd miss out on some stuff sure, but daily I would tell myself I did the right thing as I loaded my save file for Twisted Metal Black.

In the US though? gently caress. That. I sure as poo poo ain't even considering that poo poo here. And I'm in liberal Connecticut.

The fact that Norway's punishments are so laughable that it makes murdering someone something that I could actually sit there and say "yeah, I could deal with the repercussions" shows that their inmate coddling might actually fail at deterring some crimes.

Isn't there some loving middle ground between tent city AZ and a loving PlayStation?

jenny jones fan fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Apr 21, 2016

Ill Peripheral
Jun 29, 2008
Lot of retard fuckers itt. As broken as the US justice system is, I'd still rather that than the one that gives a mass murderer a massive private cell, entertainment and basically opportunity to continue to preach his views.

Like, apart from the fact that he should be dead for what he did, imagine how much this guy is going to cost the state over his lifetime? Imagine being a citizen that chips in a part of your income for his Playstation?

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Ill Peripheral posted:

Lot of retard fuckers itt. As broken as the US justice system is, I'd still rather that than the one that gives a mass murderer a massive private cell, entertainment and basically opportunity to continue to preach his views.

Like, apart from the fact that he should be dead for what he did, imagine how much this guy is going to cost the state over his lifetime? Imagine being a citizen that chips in a part of your income for his Playstation?

Hey, it's so the job is a little easier for the guards so isn't that worth coddling a child killer?

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
i'd be really glad to live in a country where the murder rate per capita is 4-8 times as high if it means that when i see a school shooting on TV that the bad guy gets shot instead of being put in jail cell with a playstation 2 for life

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Because the punishment for killing more than six dozen people should be harsher than the punishment a child receives for throwing their mashed potatoes against the wall at dinner.

Cockmaster
Feb 24, 2002

ArbitraryC posted:

Basically your options are either
a: lock them up permanately to make sure they can't harm anyone else but otherwise treat them like a person with needs and rights
b: torture and/or kill them

I mean there are certainly a lot of options between a and b but at the end of the day none of them have any better justification than b would so might as well go all out. Either the justice system is there to prevent future crimes or it's there to get vengeance for past ones, there are certainly varying degrees of vengeance but at the end of the day it's the same line of thought when you add consequences that aren't necessary but feel the offender is subhuman and deserves them.

Honestly I don't really care which, particularly in america I mean it's kind of dumb to act like we need to treat criminals well when we don't even make sure good people aren't dying in the street from lack of food, shelter, and healthcare, but in a place like norway I could see a stronger argument being made for the case of intrinsic value in human life.

Last I checked, countries which choose option A tend to have way less violent crime than the US. If you're okay with more people being murdered as long as you get to feel like you're giving the killers what they deserve, you're no better than they are.

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

Grandmother of Five posted:

i'd be really glad to live in a country where the murder rate per capita is 4-8 times as high if it means that when i see a school shooting on TV that the bad guy gets shot instead of being put in jail cell with a playstation 2 for life

Maybe the murder rate in America Is a lot higher because of completely different reasons.

You can't blame the prison system here for that one because most people convicted of murder are going to jail for the first time.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK
Jan 26, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Grandmother of Five posted:

i'd be really glad to live in a country where the murder rate per capita is 4-8 times as high if it means that when i see a school shooting on TV that the bad guy gets shot instead of being put in jail cell with a playstation 2 for life

Truly, capital punishment is the only significant difference between the US and Norway.

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

Do it ironically posted:

lmao he lives better than like 40% of americans

i really hate that this story has been a meme for many months, maybe even a year or two now of him being spoiled and complaining about it

i think the jokes remove people from realizing he literally lives better than i do, and probably half of goons

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Grandmother of Five posted:

i'd be really glad to live in a country where the murder rate per capita is 4-8 times as high if it means that when i see a school shooting on TV that the bad guy gets shot instead of being put in jail cell with a playstation 2 for life

My view is not so much a middle ground as it is just putting a bullet in the heads of the likes of Breivik and keeping it the same for the rest. There's no reason to keep around unrepentant, legally sane mass murderers who are guilty beyond any doubt whatsoever, much less rewarding them with a victorious human rights lawsuit on Hitler's birthday. And I used to be opposed to the death penalty outright.

It's much more troubling that prominent voices in Scandinavia and abroad are blaming his mass murder on "multiculturalism" (Sørine Godtfredsen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, etc.) without consequence, and that Danish MPs are having dinner parties with his number one source of inspiration, the latter getting zero attention from the press.

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 21, 2016

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Sorry if its been addressed but why dont they just put him in general pop?

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Colonel Cancer posted:

They should just force all longterm prisoners to play WoW all day.

They could have an all-con raiding guild

I think I'd take WoW gold farmer over whatever poo poo job paid in pennies they force you to do in prison.

Revenants Return
Mar 28, 2016

by Shine
The Xbox one has the wrong kind of RAM. It's also too big to fit in the cell lmao.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost
How the hell can I start a terrorist organization against him?

Revenants Return
Mar 28, 2016

by Shine

SplitSoul posted:

My view is not so much a middle ground as it is just putting a bullet in the heads of the likes of Breivik and keeping it the same for the rest. There's no reason to keep around unrepentant, legally sane mass murderers who are guilty beyond any doubt whatsoever, much less rewarding them with a victorious human rights lawsuit on Hitler's birthday. And I used to be opposed to the death penalty outright.

It's much more troubling that prominent voices in Scandinavia and abroad are blaming his mass murder on "multiculturalism" (Sørine Godtfredsen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, etc.) without consequence, and that Danish MPs are having dinner parties with his number one source of inspiration, the latter getting zero attention from the press.

What are you talking about dinner parties OP

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

How the hell can I start a terrorist organization against him?

I have running water and a towel. I can do it

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost

skeletonotherkin posted:

This does seem crazy, but remember if Norwegian prisons weren't so lax and comfy Varg would have never been able to record so much great music.

This guy killed a bunch of children.
Then he thought he was a hero

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Revenants Return posted:

What are you talking about dinner parties OP

A member of parliament from the Danish People's Party invited Fjordman, Breivik's number one idol whom he cited 111 times in his manifesto, to a dinner party.

Lil Bit O Vitriol
Jan 10, 2010

katlington posted:

Sorry if its been addressed but why dont they just put him in general pop?
Officially it's because they don't want to report that Breveik was found lynched in the prison rec room but unofficially its because the other inmates don't want to share their Xbox with him.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN35xxJqXKI

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Solitary confinement is pretty much completely hosed up regardless of circumstances THERE I SAID IT I HAVE AN OPINION

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost

gannyGrabber posted:

Solitary confinement is pretty much completely hosed up regardless of circumstances THERE I SAID IT I HAVE AN OPINION

is he solitary?
Either way he has a nicer apartment than I could ever afford

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Cockmaster posted:

Last I checked, countries which choose option A tend to have way less violent crime than the US. If you're okay with more people being murdered as long as you get to feel like you're giving the killers what they deserve, you're no better than they are.

Yeah for sure, but who knows if that's more of a causation or correlation stat so that's kind of shaky. It's like pointing out how places that ban abortion tend to have higher abortion rates, obviously making it illegal doesn't magically generate mor unwanted pregnancies it's just sort of linked with a society that shits on women and makes abortion more desirable.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

gannyGrabber posted:

Solitary confinement is pretty much completely hosed up regardless of circumstances THERE I SAID IT I HAVE AN OPINION

Agreed for the most part, but when the alternative is finding him strung up by his PS2 controller and with Rayman 2: Revolution inserted into his rear end, it's an obvious choice.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost

SplitSoul posted:

Agreed for the most part, but when the alternative is finding him strung up by his PS2 controller and with Rayman 2: Revolution inserted into his rear end, it's an obvious choice.

wait, no. I want him to kill himself.

Mumpy Puffinz fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Apr 21, 2016

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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I feel like prisons are pretty inhumane to begin with. Can't we just talk to the prisoner and ask him to stop his shenanigans? Sure he slipped up and killed 77 kids, sure he doesn't regret it and in fact revels in it, but maybe a truly enlightened society would forgive him for his mistake and integrate him again?

I say let all prisoners free, locking them up in cells like animals is not morally defensible

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
if you're the kind of freedom hating European or socialist who doesn't want to give your government a mandate to give out death sentences or do torture, you pretty much have to keep some people locked up and attempt to provide them with ways to distract themselves during their confinement, which is possibly for the remainder of their lives, to such an extent that you don't end up doing what is effectively torture, and that's regardless of whether or not re-integration is feasible or not, which doesn't change a thing if you as a society have committed to the decision that death sentences and torture is something you don't want your government doing

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
This is what we should do imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6C1gSbS2os

freeze em up, boyos

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost

Zzulu posted:

I feel like prisons are pretty inhumane to begin with. Can't we just talk to the prisoner and ask him to stop his shenanigans? Sure he slipped up and killed 77 kids, sure he doesn't regret it and in fact revels in it, but maybe a truly enlightened society would forgive him for his mistake and integrate him again?

I say let all prisoners free, locking them up in cells like animals is not morally defensible

it really is when they kill a kindergarden

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost
you shoot a bunch of kids, get locked up forever

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Handle with Caution
Nap Ghost
and no ps2

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

i seriously fail to see any meaningful difference between this guy and everyone we hung at nuremberg

like, there is crime, and there is this. what he did. it's special. it's in a whole other league.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
He should be locked up with a 360 and Skate 2 with the glitched Moon jump patched out

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

Bishop posted:

Theory: when you make a mistake and murder 70 innocent kids, you forfeit your value to society. Prison for life keeps you from making another whoopsie but the damage you've done transcends that.

The community feels vulnerable after a core belief, like "my kids can go to camp and not be brutally massacred" is challenged.

Sadistically executing the killer is more for the victims and community as a whole to feel safer. It doesn't matter if it prevents anything because it helps to restore confidence in society.

they were sending kids to labour camps!

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

also seriously, if this guy was a member of isis or something and not a homegrown perfect true aryan or what the gently caress ever, things would be quite a bit different, wouldn't they? You can't seriously tell me with a straight face that they wouldn't have shipped his rear end out for disposal, or that his handlers back home along with anyone unlucky enough to be standing near them wouldn't have been predator droned at the earliest convenience.

White privilege has a face and it is this dude hanging out in his humble abode complaining to his lawyer about video games.

Slow-Scan Shep fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Apr 21, 2016

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Maybe he could get sent to an American prison so he can get killed in GenPop like he deserves.

Slow-Scan Shep
Jul 11, 2001

it's almost as if the american prison system is designed exclusively for people like him and the Norwegian prison system is designed exclusively for everyone else

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
europeans used to be willing to spend millions of lives in global conflict against mass murderers

now they feel guilty about giving one the off-brand controller

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Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat

papa_november posted:

also seriously, if this guy was a member of isis or something and not a homegrown perfect true aryan or what the gently caress ever, things would be quite a bit different, wouldn't they? You can't seriously tell me with a straight face that they wouldn't have shipped his rear end out for disposal, or that his handlers back home along with anyone unlucky enough to be standing near them wouldn't have been predator droned at the earliest convenience.

White privilege has a face and it is this dude hanging out in his humble abode complaining to his lawyer about video games.

duh

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