• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: "I am sorry for the lives I have taken, for the suffering that I have caused"
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[QUOTE=butre;48045915]He was 19 at the time of the bombing. 19 is old enough to think for yourself and to know that what he did was wrong.[/QUOTE] that is, unless you were taught otherwise. It's pretty incredible just how easy it is to manipulate anyone into doing something wrong, even easier if you're that person's older brother.
[QUOTE=jonu67;48042794]Still deserves his punishment, but it's good to know he regrets what he did.[/QUOTE] Crocodile tears he made that all up in an effort to not get the death penalty. [editline]29th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Lord of Ears;48055607]every single time i see an execution defender saying "death is merciful compared to life in prison" i wonder if they've ever contemplated the concept of death at all[/QUOTE] They usually believe in an afterlife or hell so that usually doesn't equate into their thinking.
If he's telling the truth, then good. It gives him something to think about while he waits for his execution.
[QUOTE=butre;48045915]He was 19 at the time of the bombing. 19 is old enough to think for yourself and to know that what he did was wrong.[/QUOTE] The people down voting this comment must be from japan where you're not an adult until you're 21.
[QUOTE=erkor;48068851]I'd rather live 10+ years alone instead of being dead forever[/QUOTE] Don't think you realize how absolutely critical social interaction is to psychological wellbeing. Most people who say they aren't social or the nerdy types who spend 24/7 on their computers are absolutely socializing. They're messaging people, sharing ideas, consuming the ideas of other people through video games and music, experiencing art and culture and watching videos of other people, all sorts of shit. Solitary confinement is you and a room with a bed and a toilet and food delivered daily. Zero human contact. You don't even see a human face. If you're very lucky you might get a book. Living for 10 years in a box with zero human contact would quite literally change who you are to the core. You have nothing meaningful to do with your time. You just sit. You don't have anything to do with your life whatsoever. Nothing. Just sitting there. Eating twice a day. Shitting. Sleeping. That's it. You have no relationships to build, you have no goals to achieve, you have absolutely nothing to do. There's been loads of research into this. After a few months, you get irreversible anxiety and panic attacks. Your mind starts to break. You'll clean your cell fifteen times a day because there's literally nothing else to do. Your cognitive function declines significantly - you literally get stupider because your brain has nothing to do. If you read (and you rarely will get enough books to consume without re-reading them multiple times), you'll eventually hate it enough to stop reading because your mind has fucked itself to the point that you can't remember what you're reading. It fucks up your biological clock, so you'll get severe insomnia or sleep for irrationally long amounts of time. You'll be bored as fuck, so you'll decide to sleep to pass the time. Now you don't get meaningful sleep - you just doze all day and have nothing to do, so you fuck up your REM and now you're suffering from sleep deprivation and psychosis. You start losing control of your emotions - you become very reactive and aggressive and you lose all sense of fight or flight - you lose the ability to discern whether you should be alert or resting. After ten years in solitary, you'll probably score significantly lower on IQ tests, you'll have essentially zero purpose in life, and you'll be dangerously anxious and reactive and aggressive. Solitary is literally worse than death. It does absolutely nothing to rehabilitate prisoners, it breaks down the very core of who you are as a human being, and it forces severe anxiety and mental illness upon you. You lose control not only over your free will and your ability to physically go where you please, but also the right to exercise your mind. There's a reason the suicide rate is far higher for people who spent lengthy sentences in solitary. It doesn't help that the type of people that get put in solitary almost always have untreated mental illnesses to start with. I have no question that I would rather kill myself than spend the rest of my life in solitary. I'd probably cave my head in against the wall after a couple years. It's psychological torture, no question.
Sooooo, someone remind me again what punishing or killing him is going to do for anyone???
[QUOTE=Rubs10;48079877]Sooooo, someone remind me again what punishing or killing him is going to do for anyone???[/QUOTE] It satisfies our bloodlust so we can feel like big men when we hear he was finally executed years from now. Too bad it won't deter other people in the future, cost the tax payer, and won't bring closure to the families [I]actually[/I] affected by his actions as they deal with the appeals process for much longer than it would be if Tsarnaev was only being sent to jail, when they should be going on with their lives and working to piece them back together.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;48079877]Sooooo, someone remind me again what punishing or killing him is going to do for anyone???[/QUOTE] If people didn't get punished for doing bad things I don't know what would stop a lot of people
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[QUOTE=erkor;48068851]I'd rather live 10+ years alone instead of being dead forever[/QUOTE] You'll say that, but you regret it when that happens. I have heard stories where people scream due to boredom, literally nothing to do in their cell because either they fought/went AWOL in the military and get thrown into military prison.
[QUOTE=coldroll5;48077758]The people down voting this comment must be from japan where you're not an adult until you're 21.[/QUOTE] Don't you mean 13? :suicide:
[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;48045033]-stupidity-[/QUOTE] How more edgy are you trying to be? I mean, you're even called Dark RaveN, jesus christ.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;48080129]If people didn't get punished for doing bad things I don't know what would stop a lot of people[/QUOTE] I'm not saying we should entirely stop punishing prisoners, but trying to help them re-enter society would be a decent way. Better than throwing them in there and having them come out even more violent, at least.
Man this thread has some toxicity. What he did was awful, but if has genuine remorse it should at least be noted, not withholding justice. He deserves justice for his actions, not vengeance. Revenge is toxic. [i]An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind[/i]
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