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http://chronicle.com/article/In-Defense-of-Flogging/127208/
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I'd go one step farther than the author and, like Heinlein, impose flogging on parents for crimes of their minor children.

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Maybe we ought to stop jailing offenders that don't need to be fucking jailed.

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And put a bullet in the brains of the of the ones that should never get out.

Liberal alternative: And drop the ones who should never get out on a deserted island in the South Pacific.


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Liberal alternative: And drop the ones who should never get out on a deserted island in the South Pacific.

Bonus: in 100 years, we'll have another Australia.
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And put a bullet in the brains of the of the ones that should never get out.

Legally killing someone in this country takes forever.


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Liberal alternative: And drop the ones who should never get out on a deserted island in the South Pacific.

Bonus: in 100 years, we'll have another Australia.

More immediate bonus: install cameras all over the island, make it into a new reality show.  The proceeds go to their victims.

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Escape from New York/L.A., Running Man, Manhunt, I could go on.  Modern media prepared us for this eventuality long ago.

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"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."

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