I don't much care what happens to most inmates but those with really long sentences should probably not be released early (or at all!) because they pose too much of a risk to the rest of us.
Until you get to the second order effects. If we want to find a cure for some disease, but we don't have enough people to do experiments on (maybe a lot of eligable prisoners died in previous trials) judges now have an incentive to hand out life sentences to people with that medical condition
Even just subconsciously that would have an effect
There’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite.
Also the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.
I have an even better proposal.
We'll just use you!
I don't much care what happens to most inmates but those with really long sentences should probably not be released early (or at all!) because they pose too much of a risk to the rest of us.
Are you going to give them cancer first too?
This is a horrifying proposal not only on the ethics front but also in the scientific uselessness of it.
This is exactly the type of thing that gave the Nazis the bad name they deserve.
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Until you get to the second order effects. If we want to find a cure for some disease, but we don't have enough people to do experiments on (maybe a lot of eligable prisoners died in previous trials) judges now have an incentive to hand out life sentences to people with that medical condition
Even just subconsciously that would have an effect
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That won't create justice, only judges that forever encode current prejudices
There’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite.
Also the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.