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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Cryonic Capital Punishment Is No Less Murder 
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:04:32 -0800

Who will volunteer to cryopreserve the murderer?  Will the
murderer sign the necessary paperwork?

As far as chemically altering behavior -- my grandmother
suffers from Alzheimer's.  She gets paranoid delusions.
I would have no qualms about giving her a treatment that
would cure her disease, and with it get rid of the
delusions.  People who are in medical/psychiatric wards
because they are a danger to themselves and/or others
should at least be given a level of treatment to allow
them to be calm and lucid, and rational at least at a
basic logic level, before they are asked to decide whether
they want to undergo further treatment (for example,
treatment that would restore their competency to care for
themselves if released).

All this is IMHO, and I didn't get it all right.  I just
don't like to hear people making "Never! Absolutely not!"
statements that seem self-destructive to me.  Actually,
*most* "Never! Absolutely not!" statements seem
self-destructive to me, but that's perhaps a separate
argument.

Kennita

On Jan 28, 2007, at 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> From: David Stodolsky <>
> Subject: Re: Cryonic Capital Punishment Is No Less Murder
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:47:11 +0100
>
> On 27 Jan 2007, at 06:21,  wrote:
>
>> It is primitive, savage, revengeful, eye-for-an-eye type
>> thinking.  It is also gradually becoming out of date, as medical
>> technologies evolve to find the chemical source of deviant behaviors
>> and solutions for them.
>
> This assumes that behavior can be selectively changed by chemical
> means. I know of no scientific evidence for this assumption, even
> though it has been popular in some circles for over 30 years.

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