Friday Ethics Class, 8-10am

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Tara's eyes are shadowed as she greets the class, tension permeating her body.

"I'm sure you've all heard the announcement by now. Angelus has been accused of killing Kitty Pryde - which leaves us short one TA, but up an interesting Ethical question.

"Today we're going to discuss punishment for crimes done."

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Re: Second Hour

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Frighteningly enough, I kind of like a situation I saw read about once.

Now, I'm altering species names to protect the innocent, but the basic idea is this...

You take an island that cannot be reached by boat or plane or other means and cannot be escaped from. You get everyone on it off (assuming it was inhabited) and then take all your 'problematic' sorts and dump them on the island with the bare minimal survival supplies.

The catch? You periodically drop a hungry lion or tiger or bear. Oh my! on the island. Whoever the lion can catch and eat is lunch. Everyone else can form their own society with whatever laws or lawlessness they want.

Then you don't have to worry about the lion preying on your 'good' population and you aren't 'caging' people, taking their lives or whatever else. And they aren't a prioblem for your 'good' population, as they've been removed.

This is, of course, assuming that you've ruled out mental instability or deficiency as the cause for the crime. Those people obviously need rehab. I'm just talking about your perfectly competant, perfectly sane wack jobs.