Imagine the following imaginary scenario. It might not be realistic, but it is asimplified version of what does happen at times:
A friend comes up to you one day and says that he has fantasies he can't control about killing people... and he's serious. He tells you he called the police to ask them to lock him up, but since he'd not committed any crome yet! or if he had, his sentence was over, ther was nothing they could do.
What would you do? What would you think ought to be done? He himself is saying that if he's let loose, he'll kill, or if he has killed already, he'll kill again. What are you ideas on this?
Here's mine. If a person sincerely requests to be locked up, I would say that we lock him up, even if it's a voluntary cooperative lock-up. Of course we'd expect him to work while in prison (even for-profit work; companies could establish factories or whatever else on prison grounds if they wish), and to pay room and board, but essentially I'd say such a person ought to be applauded for actually saying quite honestly that he can't control himself and ought to be locked up before he commits the crime, and the police would be nuts to force this person out of prison against his own will if he himself says that he is still a threat to society.
A friend comes up to you one day and says that he has fantasies he can't control about killing people... and he's serious. He tells you he called the police to ask them to lock him up, but since he'd not committed any crome yet! or if he had, his sentence was over, ther was nothing they could do.
What would you do? What would you think ought to be done? He himself is saying that if he's let loose, he'll kill, or if he has killed already, he'll kill again. What are you ideas on this?
Here's mine. If a person sincerely requests to be locked up, I would say that we lock him up, even if it's a voluntary cooperative lock-up. Of course we'd expect him to work while in prison (even for-profit work; companies could establish factories or whatever else on prison grounds if they wish), and to pay room and board, but essentially I'd say such a person ought to be applauded for actually saying quite honestly that he can't control himself and ought to be locked up before he commits the crime, and the police would be nuts to force this person out of prison against his own will if he himself says that he is still a threat to society.
