What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

The op was suggesting re-introducing the death sentence for very serious crimes - not your average run of the mill criminals. And it wasn't about the possibility of innocent people being convicted either.

Life in prison is usually the direct alternative to the death sentence. If your crime is serious enough to warrant a possible death sentence, then it's usually also serious enough to preclude the possibility that you would ever be released from prison. So it's very relevant to such discussions.

You haven't addressed my point about many people in society getting gratification from the idea of a criminal being locked up for a long time? If it's such a humane and civilised alternative compared to the death penalty, then why would it illicit such a response from people?

Going back to the example of animals again, imagine if people were getting the same gratification from seeing a dangerous dog locked in a cage and denied it's freedom because it had killed someone.... people would consider this to be perverse and depraved behaviour. There would be calls for the animal to be put down, as it would not be socially acceptable to take pleasure in the suffering of any creature that was locked up.

But yet we seem to take a different attitude to people, and in fact even pretend we are very humane and civilised for these same actions and attitudes. But a quick humane death is considered cruel and uncivilised by comparison in humans. Even though it's viewed the opposite when done to animals. Why the difference in mentality?

Strangely, we seem to have the same attitude to euthanasia of the sick and suffering. It's considered an act of mercy kindness and compassion when we put a suffering animal down... but many people consider putting a person down in the same circumstances as being morally objectionable. So in essence, we treat animals more humanely than people in many situations.

I know this comment is probably a bit tongue in cheek, but I don't disagree with you. Spending decades on death row exhausting the appeals process is a stupid system. Hugely inefficient and wasteful.

There's almost 8 billion people on the planet.

Human life is not as precious or special as some people seem to think. If you've committed a very serious crime, where it's not practical or socially acceptable to be released back into society, then I don't see the big deal with ending the life of such individuals.

They're no great loss to society, and we would be much better off focusing our energy and resources on the billions of decent law abiding citizens who are not ruining other people's lives.

I think some people's attitude to the death penalty comes from the idea that death is the worst fate that can befall any person. But objectively speaking, this is not really true. There are plenty of horrific scenarios you can experience in this life, which outrank a quick peaceful humane death. Being locked up indefinitely and possibly being kept in isolation for decades, would rank among many people's worst fears in this life. But because we've been socially/psychologically conditioned to fear death above all other things, our natural response is to see it as the worst option. When it really isn't always the case.

If you, in your current job, can be replaced by a current AI, I think you should be. Let the computers handle the drudgery, and let people do the jobs where they can add the most human value. If your job involved helping people, it's probably safe, whether it's direct care (e.g. nursing) or indirect (e.g. helping to fix their internet connections). Jobs that require real-world work are at no risk: a computer can't replace a plumber. If your job involves producing impersonal "content" that no-one really wants or needs, what do you do that ChatGPT can't already do better?

Recently there was a study that compared the bedside manner or whatever it's called between actual doctors and AI models. Surprisingly, the AI models came out on top, and people rated them as being more empathetic than real doctors. The same is also true when researchers put AI bots in a virtual village and watched their interactions with each other. People rated their humanness higher than actual humans who were given a similar task.

Roll-on fully automated luxury communism 😁

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Multi millionaire singing about how shyte it is to be poor.

He seems to only appeal to males in the 50-60 age bracket.

Advertisers that use eating noises in their ads should face the death penalty.

You know it's decentralised? You can find mastadon servers for anything at all. It's like popping into boards and saying that everyone is a vaper when you only looked at the vaping forum.

Skoda should go back to making rear engine cars

ADHD is turning into a fad. Loads of people I know from back in my college days are getting themselves diagnosed, paying up to €1,000 to online doctors for prescription stimulants. They definitely don’t have ADHD, as they have always been top performers. They graduated with first class honours degrees or II.1s, and work in high pressure jobs (e.g. law firms, banks etc). I wouldn’t mind, but it’s all on the drug payment scheme so it’s my tax subsidising it. Absolutely nuts that 1 hour chatting with someone on zoom can get you a diagnosis and a prescription for strong stimulants.