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You wish to invoke the power of the social compact, and mischaracterize it as a duty to protect citizens, rather than to maintain the social fabric, but only after you mock it, by dismissing the transformative power of the ritual.

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

He will probably be studied in a psychiatric maximum security facility for the rest of his life,
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A main concern of many people here, is learning what caused this to happen, and to address those causative factors.

I will not permit the State of Norway to kill its own citizens. That's not an authority I will confer on my state under any circumstance.

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there will never be any good to come out of you being alive.

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A man developed a psychosis, it took him to a very evil place in his mind, he made a choice to act in accordance, and many innocents are dead. What test are we going to come up with to determine the choices people may make? Can a society that then tracks down people who don't think right for further testing still call itself free?

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

He will probably be studied in a psychiatric maximum security facility for the rest of his life,
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A main concern of many people here, is learning what caused this to happen, and to address those causative factors.

I will not permit the State of Norway to kill its own citizens. That's not an authority I will confer on my state under any circumstance.

Thanks for your patience, Aswad. Today wasn't quite the bitch it might have been.

The sadistic, and slightly evil smart-ass in me demands I suggest dissection and chemical analysis of his remains for the study methodology. But that's just me, and while I joke, the idea of a criminal being sentenced to medical experimentation troubles me more than executing them does. There are certain situations and circumstances where I'm quite willing to have the government hold the power to end the life of a human. I'm not so ok with them having the power to dehumanize someone into a lab rat. I don't think that's precisely what you meant, but how do you study something without testing, once in a while?

A man developed a psychosis, it took him to a very evil place in his mind, he made a choice to act in accordance, and many innocents are dead. What test are we going to come up with to determine the choices people may make? Can a society that then tracks down people who don't think right for further testing still call itself free? I see that as the more tyrannical path. Government may intrude on our money, and our behavior, and yes, have the power to take a life, but the to start ruling on what may exist in our minds, lest we make the wrong choices? That's the one I'm militantly unwilling to confer.

We also discussed this a bit in the aftermath of the attack, and you expressed a thought that this man might just somehow die rather quickly in prison. Here, it's quite clear that we are much in agreement on the fate this man should meet in response to his crimes, but not on where the punishment should come from. I expect it from the established social order, you would like to trust in fate, or leave it to the hands of the gods/God/karma, rather than let that power be held by your government.

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Vincent; the ritual is a whole process, that starts when a judge passes the sentence, and not unduly disturbed by closing the curtain while the IV gets set.

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Study away. For the ones on death row, don't plan on long term studies. Hell, you might do better with the ones who cut a deal to avoid the death penalty anyway. They are willing to talk.