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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Going on a lot of assumptions here, but lets say doctors are 100% certain he is mentally ok now and committed to his regimen of medication which will 100% prevent any future decapitation episodes.
What is the benefit of putting him in prison? Will the victims family feel better about their missing family member? Will they sleep easier at night? Luckily I have no first hand experience with this, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think there is any way to have "justice" for the family members. You put Vincent Li to death, you put him in prison for life, it doesn't bring back the victim. There are no pros to imprisoning him.
So if there is certainty he's not going to reoffend we save a bunch of money, we give a human a chance at some form of meaningful life, and maybe even bring a tax payer back into the system.
I just don't see, given my possibly wild assumptions, any positives of throwing the guy in jail for the purpose of "justice".
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There's nothing "possibly wild" about the assumption that a group of psychiatrists could be 100% certain he's better or going to stay on his meds.
I look at it the same way as I look at home insurance. It's very unlikely that your house is going to burn down, isn't it? But you pay for the insurance anyways. Same thing here. The price of incarcerating Vincent Li is a small price for society to pay to ensure he doesn't cut off someone else's head.
Further, until the science/medicine progresses to the point where we can be 100% certain he won't reoffend, guys in his situation should be kept away from the general population.