News: Extending convicts' lives 'indefinitely'

BudBud

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Could we condemn criminals to suffer for hundreds of years? Biotechnology could let us extend convicts' lives 'indefinitely'
• This is the scenario being explored by researchers at Oxford University
• They claim life extension tech could mean prisoners serve longer sentences
• Philosopher Dr Rebecca Roache also writes in her blog that a time distortion pill could make people feel like they were in prison longer
• Another scenario the group looked at was uploading mind to a digital realm
• Running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours

Sentencing a criminal to 1,000 years in an artificial hell may one day become a reality.
At least, that is the claim of scientists at Oxford University who have been exploring controversial technologies that could extend human life.
They say billions are being invested in techniques that could mean the cruellest criminals will be kept alive indefinitely in condition befitting their crime.

Last year, a team of scientists led by Rebecca Roache began exploring technologies that could keep prisoners in an artificial hell

According to their research, prison firms could also develop drugs that make time pass slowly, making an inmate’s sentence feel like an eternity.
As well as extending life, there are a number of psychoactive drugs that distort people’s sense of time.

Turning to human engineering as a possible solutions, Dr Roache looks at the idea of life span enhancements so that a life sentence in prison can last hundreds of years. The technology could be used on the most serious crimes, such as those committed by Adolf Hitler

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Reaper

That's too cruel no matter what

Noah

I think that would be a bit much

BudBud

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Originally posted by Reaper

That's too cruel no matter what

IDK what to think of it just yet - i mean there has been convicts who have been sentenced to multiple life times in prison and 100's of years in prison too - and it seemed like a joke but now....

Icarus

Why give it to criminals, I want it for myself

Dancehall

What an awful idea. Definitely cruel and unusual.

BlueTimberwolf

What kinda torture? Especially if you're wrongfully convicted

MissAmericanDream

What the ****. Why not use this science for good and not evil. People need ****ing help, anyone thinking this is a good idea needs to be in prison themselves.

Gabriel_Spears

GET THEM....

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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf

What kinda torture? Especially if you're wrongfully convicted

this

Thisisit

I was just thinking that this all sounds like some ridiculous sci-fi fanfic, seeing as both physically extending life by hundreds of years and uploading the mind into a digital realm are far far beyond the horizon are where we are realistically, and then I saw it:

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Philosopher Dr Rebecca Roache also writes in her blog that a time distortion pill could make people feel like they were in prison longer

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Anyway, in principle the idea is braindead in every sense, and undermines the point of a justice system which strives towards betterment of society rather than retribution.