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I'm still not getting it. Are you saying that middle-aged middle-class white men are naturally smarter than everyone else?

I don't buy it.

Reports are that Breivik plays Playstation in his cell.

Myra Hindley used to carry on lesbian love affairs with other inmates and campaign for her release.

The same liberal activists who campaign against the death penalty also insist on comfortable prisons because real punishment is 'cruel'.

Who would prefer being executed to chilling out in their cell for a few decades?

The natural human response to death is to fight against it... that is our innate survival instinct.

So asking the question, would you prefer decades of incarceration compared with a swift humane death is not really going to illicit a balanced response. Partly of course, because we know nothing about death other than it being inevitable. Where as we know plenty about life, including the reality of day to day prison life. People instinctively choose something they know over something mysterious and unknown.

The question is whether or not decades of incarceration should be considered an act of mercy? I don't personally think it can be, regardless of whether you get a TV and an Xbox to play with. If it was such a humane and civilised form of punishment, then you wouldn't get so many people taking such overt pleasure from people "rotting in prison" for the rest of their lives.

Ask most people out in society how they would feel about being locked up for the rest of their life, and never having freedom ever again... it would naturally rank very high as one of the worst scenarios most people could imagine facing in their life.

I'm making an argument that the perception of incarceration Vs the death penalty is incorrect and in fact riddled with hypocrisy.

Unfortunately Ireland is riddled with greed for the last 20 years. Nobody cares about eachother

anymore. A Celtic Tiger creation I'm afraid and it is here to stay.

I'm no fan of Trump, but just listening to him on the radio today complaining about having to head back home to face charges of sexual assault.

He says it's all lies.

I think if he is found innocent, then the woman making the claims should face jail time.

No. If we assume that all people have the same distribution of competence, then a D&I policy that favours certain segments of race/gender is obviously limiting choice and thus lessens the chances of hiring for competence.

I won’t name my company but we have a policy that must select 50:50 men:women candidates for interview. We often discard men that score higher than women in aptitude tests and CV screening to comply with policy. In my opinion, which is increasingly more wrong-headed it appears, such a policy can only lower overall competence. It’s basic logic, but anyway.

Haven’t numerous studies shown that diverse teams outperform homogenous ones?

They’re not. At all. It’s only when they do score lower that the policy is enforced, hence it negatively selects against competence.

You seem to be contradicting yourself. If the policy is having the negative effect that you suggest, then this must be as a result of women scoring lower, at least in some competitions or posts.

So why do you think women are scoring lower in those competitions or posts?

Then the solution is to improve prisons and make sure they're about rehabilitation and not just punishment.

The solution is not to kill people because we think it's more humane.

Serial killers are edge cases. The vast majority of prisoners are not serial killers. They will be released at some point. Serial killers and people who have mental health issues should be held in special facilities. Drug users too should be held in special units where they can get treatment.

And prison shouldn't be about punishment, it should be about rehabilitation.

And honestly, I can't see how I'm arguing against the proposition that killing someone is more humane than letting them serve their time and get released. Especially when the discussion started about how innocent people can end up being convicted.