[TriLUG] Fwd: Hans Reiser leads cops to wife's body.

[Greg Brown]

We're not talking about a long history of misdemeanors here.. we're talking
about the biggie: murder.  Make him work in the license plate factory or
laundry like every other person who has proved they are unable to function
in a society that provides them enough rope to hang themselves.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Ron Joffe <rjoffe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 July 2008 10:13, Greg Brown wrote:
> >> > But that brings a more serious topic to hand. One of the ideas behind
> >> > incarceration is the idea that the convict is "Paying back society".
> >> >
> >> > Couldn't we have Hans pay back society by continuing to work on an
> open
> >> > source
> >> > project ?
> >> >
> >> > Ron
> >>
> >> Punish him by allowing him to continue doing exactly what he was doing
> >> before he elected to commit his crime?  Um... no.
> >
> > Punish him by removing his freedom of movement, but have him pay back to
> > society by working on open source (actually any open source would do).
>
> Furthermore, in this hypothetical he should not be earning money from
> Namesys while in prison, so at least some of the reward of the work he
> was doing before being imprisoned would be taken away from him.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
> "Small acts of humanity amid the chaos of inhumanity provide hope. But
> small acts are insufficient."
>  -- Paul Rusesabagina
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