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Originally Posted by Ne7en
Simple..
Guy never operates machinery again. Guarantees the safety of the public.
Degrood never sees freedom again. This also is the only way to guarantee public safety.
Like someone said earlier.. public safety trumps degrood's freedom.
Also don't waste any tax dollars trying to rehabilitate someone whom has wiped away 5 lives. What money is spent on rehabilitating the victims families after this tragedy?
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The only way to guarantee public safety from anyone is to incarcerate all people. Every time you step onto the street you have a higher chance of dying from some random event than you do of Matthew De Groode coming to kill you.
IMO, public safety concerns do NOT trump de Groodes freedom if he has shown to have no relapses with medication and Psychiatric experts deem him fit to at least re-enter society under supervision.
Also, I'm open to be corrected, but IIRC, the cost of rehabilitation is minimal compared to lifetime incarceration or even a death sentence.
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Originally Posted by northcrunk
I don't think a physical disease would cause someone to pick up a knife and kill 5 people which is why the comparison is not great.
The only comparison I can think of which would be somewhat similar is if someone is infected with AIDS and they go around stabbing random people with needles of their blood and do not take their meds.
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This implies the person with the needle knows what they are doing. That they are infected with AIDS and purposefully infecting people without their knowledge (i'm fairly certain there is precedence for that being considered murder). It's not comparable, because the assumption under NCR is that they had no idea what they were doing.