It sounds good on paper, but what of those who never make their way back? For too many people, certain wounds don't heal. Time per se is no indicator of recuperation or even familiarity. Nor is the value of any learning curve defined by time. There's just too much that occurs in the mind to be adequately addressed by so inconclusive a measurement.Well, the only thing that really alleviates mental suffering is time. If they truely believe that a certain amount of time has passed maybe that suffering will reflect that. Psychology is quite an interesting subject and its down right amazing how the brain reacts to certain stimuli.
It sounds good on paper, but what of those who never make their way back? For too many people, certain wounds don't heal. Time per se is no indicator of recuperation or even familiarity. Nor is the value of any learning curve defined by time. There's just too much that occurs in the mind to be adequately addressed by so inconclusive a measurement.
If anything even remotely approaching this level of advance were to become a reality, it couldn't happen in the ass backward society in which we currently reside. It's just silly ,sci-fi, gee whizz BS.
Don't look at me...this is, as they say, your party.I'm in the Bat Cave, but damn it, why is Robin here instead of Bat Girl?
Don't look at me...this is, as they say, your party.
That's the usual response. Sci-Fi predicted this that or the other. It didn't really. No one was speculating about unified field theory in the Middle Ages. Sci-Fi only piggybacks the cutting edge with no obligation for either novelty or credibility. That it gets lucky every once in a while speaks more to probability than informed guesswork. You and I could make a million guesses as to how a person's day will turn out, and the chances are we'll be right a lot of the time. Where's all the teleportation, time travel, anti-matter drives and fusion powered egg whisks?Well, they haven't come to anything that actually works yet. AFACT this is just a theory at this point in time and they haven't come up with a workable product yet. While it is currently and technically just "sci-fi" I wouldn't discount it as being silly. They do have a point in that there are some pschotropic drugs that make it seem like time has slowed down. All the technology today would have been deemed "sci-fi" 100 years ago. :shrug: If it has a possiblity of working then I see no reason to just dismiss it and not even research it. Particularly if it can have a positive effect.
That's the usual response. Sci-Fi predicted this that or the other. It didn't really. No one was speculating about unified field theory in the Middle Ages. Sci-Fi only piggybacks the cutting edge with no obligation for either novelty or credibility. That it gets lucky every once in a while speaks more to probability than informed guesswork. You and I could make a million guesses as to how a person's day will turn out, and the chances are we'll be right a lot of the time. Where's all the teleportation, time travel, anti-matter drives and fusion powered egg whisks?
Psychotropic drugs? Isn't that a far cry from artificially implanting complete memories, emotional maturation and comprehensive knowledge directly into the mind? I don't say these things will never be possible, but as I said, they won't happen while we're still at the sewer-stage of our species' development. We live in a Capitalist ****hole of a world where governments spend trillions on military R&D for weapons of mass destruction, while millions of people die of thirst and starvation. A world where people 'hate fags', 'hate kikes' and 'hate niggers'.
Trust me, dude. We're not getting anywhere near that level of advancement any time soon. Science doesn't develop in a vacuum.
Way to miss the point, brah.So you don't think that picking up a small, plastic device and be able to talk to anyone almost anywhere in the world isn't Sci-Fi? How about computers? How about airplanes? Cars? MRI machines? Laparoscopy?
Not one of these things existed when I was born.
Way to miss the point, brah.
Attaboy.
First of all, I couldn't make my points any more remedial if I tried. Secondly, you were indeed 'snarky' yourself.Why don't you just explain what point I missed in lieu of being snarky?
I'm not your brah. Nor was I rude. I thought I made a valid point. If you don't agree, why don't you enlighten me instead?
That's the usual response. Sci-Fi predicted this that or the other. It didn't really. No one was speculating about unified field theory in the Middle Ages. Sci-Fi only piggybacks the cutting edge with no obligation for either novelty or credibility. That it gets lucky every once in a while speaks more to probability than informed guesswork. You and I could make a million guesses as to how a person's day will turn out, and the chances are we'll be right a lot of the time. Where's all the teleportation, time travel, anti-matter drives and fusion powered egg whisks?
Psychotropic drugs? Isn't that a far cry from artificially implanting complete memories, emotional maturation and comprehensive knowledge directly into the mind? I don't say these things will never be possible, but as I said, they won't happen while we're still at the sewer-stage of our species' development. We live in a Capitalist ****hole of a world where governments spend trillions on military R&D for weapons of mass destruction, while millions of people die of thirst and starvation. A world where people 'hate fags', 'hate kikes' and 'hate niggers'.
Trust me, dude. We're not getting anywhere near that level of advancement any time soon. Science doesn't develop in a vacuum.
Personally, I think the best economic system is capitalistic at it's core, but with the excesses of same restrained by well-crafted regulations.And yet our Capitalist ****hole is still lightyears beyond and millions of times better than any other system ever has been able to reach.
Most of what you rant there is nothing but socialist mumbo-jumbo. Most of those millions dying of thirst and starvation are doing so because they didn't adopt open Capitalism but socialism and closed market capitalism. They made their choices, tough ****.
Personally, I think the best economic system is capitalistic at it's core, but with the excesses of same restrained by well-crafted regulations.
Not this hodge-podge of regulations created by what is effectively a group of "lawmakers" who are owned individually by various corporations or groups or corporations.
Put another way, capitalism is all well and good in an economy, but it has no place in government.
That's the usual response. Sci-Fi predicted this that or the other. It didn't really. No one was speculating about unified field theory in the Middle Ages. Sci-Fi only piggybacks the cutting edge with no obligation for either novelty or credibility. That it gets lucky every once in a while speaks more to probability than informed guesswork. You and I could make a million guesses as to how a person's day will turn out, and the chances are we'll be right a lot of the time. Where's all the teleportation, time travel, anti-matter drives and fusion powered egg whisks?
Psychotropic drugs? Isn't that a far cry from artificially implanting complete memories, emotional maturation and comprehensive knowledge directly into the mind? I don't say these things will never be possible, but as I said, they won't happen while we're still at the sewer-stage of our species' development. We live in a Capitalist ****hole of a world where governments spend trillions on military R&D for weapons of mass destruction, while millions of people die of thirst and starvation. A world where people 'hate fags', 'hate kikes' and 'hate niggers'.
Trust me, dude. We're not getting anywhere near that level of advancement any time soon. Science doesn't develop in a vacuum.
That is an interesting way to look at it.What we primarily have today is a socialist minded government that has transformed capitalism into corporatism (AKA Corporate Socialism), the only real difference between socialist and corporatism is who they think the slave masters should be.
Mumbo-Jumbo. Socialism. Choices. etcAnd yet our Capitalist ****hole is still lightyears beyond and millions of times better than any other system ever has been able to reach.
Most of what you rant there is nothing but socialist mumbo-jumbo. Most of those millions dying of thirst and starvation are doing so because they didn't adopt open Capitalism but socialism and closed market capitalism. They made their choices, tough ****.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Creepy, definitely. More humane? I don't know. After all, perception is reality.
Part of the reason why we lock up criminals is because they're a threat to society (the violent ones anyway), and it was legally deemed that the criminal's potential positive influence in society is heavily outweighed by their negative influence and therefore must be removed. So they'd leave society for less than a day? I wonder how this would affect not only the individual, but society at large; are punishments supposed to be mostly internal or mostly external?
Thoughts?
Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours' - Telegraph
How would you punish a rapist, molester, burglar or some other violent criminal without sticking them in prison?
Mumbo-Jumbo. Socialism. Choices. etc
Great. Another leviathan.
What should a justice system be based on?
Should it be based on trying to deliver the harshest punishment we can imagine?
Don't you think that throwing a fellow human being in a place to spend the rest of their days where they can't leave nor are they kept all that safe a little bit inhumane?
Don't you think it's a bit inhumane to rob another human being of their complete liberty?
What does that teach them?
What does it do for the victim?
Does it really do anything except treat people like animals?
Anyone that really believes this idea here is humane is an idiot. What is interesting however is that people are actually considering giving the government the power to punish their citizens for thousands of years with the use of drugs.
If the prisoner thinks it's real, it damn well is.Imaginary punishment is not real punishment.
Idea is not absurd.
Of course justice system is about what's best for society and not what is best for any victims.
Justice =/= vengeance.
Besides, I think subjecting a prisoner to a thousand years of imprisonment within his own mind is damn near the worst punishment you could possibly inflict, depending of course on where the prisoner thinks they are and what they think they are doing.
Except for the ones that do and realize that it will be the same experience as being in jail for 1,000 years. Let's say one exists, would you like them to determine the punishment for their crime against them?
1,000 years* for them. Ask the scientists who developed this drug, not me.You do not think that after the 8 hours are up that the offender will offender will just pass the experience off as some sort of horrible nightmare.
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