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Originally posted by Kanoealoha
I'm all for it... some people should not be alive using tax dollars to live after they took that privledge from others.
We discussed the death penalty in Psych class... and we were studying classical conditioning...pavlov's dog...
and the point was made that...there is too much time between the crime and the punishment. Reinforcement just doesn't work...
but then there is all that comes with reinforcing the punishment to quickly...so ahh...oh well
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Please read the whole thread again. Your tax dollars theory holds know weight.
I learned the same thing in psych class. I too think rehabilitation is wishful thinking. How do you rehabilitate a killer? A rapist?