[ExI] punishment

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 14:06:40 UTC 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>wrote:

> The fact that prisoners are not allowed to suicide does not seem to me
> to be because it's considered "too easy an escape", but rather because
> death is seen as a very, very bad thing.


Nothing wrong with that, as it is a very, very bad thing the loss of
liberty, but what has it to do with allowing life prisoners to opt for
execution? They would be in the best possible position to assess their own
personal preferences, wouldn't they?

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Stefano Vaj
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