to make it appear that time slows down, the brain needs to be sped up, the body can't move, be like trapped, but you'd still be able to think, otherwise this "punishment" wouldn't work. Just be like being drugged.
Think of it like this. You're alive, you have memories of the life you're living right now. But then, you essentially get red pilled, and told that everything you've experienced, all ~80 years, was all in the blink of an eye. Now, I don't know about you, but that would psychologically destroy me. Real talk.
I agree there is an ethical dilemma here, but no more really than with prison itself. It all depends on how and why we sentence people. The ideal incarceration rehabilitates a person, gives them a useful function in society, and some way to pay all or some of the damage they’ve done back. Where they are “beyond rehabilitation” prison serves to keep society safe as well as the prisoner. So if this method was used with a program that could use that time to teach and council, I’d rather see a repeat car thief or an abusive spouse spend a few hours in prison and come out having experienced what felt like years of therapy and recuperation than see them lose a huge part of their life likely not learning that same lesson. But someone beyond our ability to rehabilitate shouldn’t be given this, just a regular prison sentence where they can’t harm the general public. If you can’t use that “extended time” to heal there’s no point. Prison isn’t supposed to be cruel- it’s suppose to teach a lesson.
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I don’t think you could give them “what feels like years of therapy” seeing as their perception of time is so skewed, the therapist would be talking so slowly that the inmate could never make sense of it
I would agree. As described as a drug induced state I doubt that you could make any real use of it without at least a companion technology like direct neural upload or some type of digital memory manipulation. In that scenario the “time” would only serve to distance a person in their mind from that version of themselves. As described it just seems like a street drug or a method of torture.
Cruel and unusual punishment- IF you’re guilty. Good luck getting an appeal put together in 8 hours. Even if you were in one of those sped up dumbed down police or legal tv shows where there’s always a magic way out- even those attorneys couldn’t even do the paper work to get you freed until you’d been in prison a couple thousand years.
Doesn’t this require a lot of energy? Some small animals like flies have good reaction time because they see in slow motion, but they have a very high metabolism.
Popular Science did a story like this 20 years ago. The machine that was invisioned could also replicate torture without physical harm. They can also stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. I don't know how they can get around the psychological effects.
No. The point of prison in the case of lifetime sentences is to keep a person out of society when they’ve proven unable to do so and are unlikely to ever be able to. Lesser sentences are meant as a deterrent and as a chance for the person to rehabilitate. The goal of a successful prison is to teach offenders not to offend again. One school of thought disproven through statistics and historical experience is that draconian sentencing or corporal punishment alone are valid methods to instill a “fear” of consequence in offenders and prevent repeat offenses. While there’s room to debate wether they work at all let alone better than other means, evidence shows that without programs aimed at reintegration and normalization of accepted social convention- any other methods aren’t likely to have a significant success, and where successful the humanitarian cost is still a concern.
I only went back to 1987, but I can dig up such evidence for at least 2000 years if needed, though I’d rather not. The sample is data from across several countries as well as views of several countries including the NIJ (US government department) and several universities. The last few talk about why it may be that Norway has the lowest recividivism in most of the world. There are also a few discussing the failure of “iron fist” policies in several modern governments. There’s more out there. Much more. But here are some citations to start with.
No worries. I apologize for not providing citations in the initial body, the truncated list is already quite long- but am generally happy to do so when requested.
We don’t even have a solid and consistent definition of what a terrorist is- let alone to give the broad power to use such a sentence on anyone labeled a terrorist by federal or local authorities. Factor in that as a punishment this already has a HUGE draw back in due process- how does one successfully appeal should they be actually innocent or guilty of a lesser crime than sentenced, let alone that any appeal taking more than a few minutes would feel like years to the person? Then add that “terrorists” have not been given the best or in many cases any due process in recent history. That later proven innocent men and women have been incarcerated as terrorists on fear and speculation without any chance at legal aid. That suggestion is extremely frightening to the very idea of civil liberty or freedom of any type.
I'm wondering how this would affect them psychologically, I think that they would be extremely confused once they're free because they see themselves in the future but in reality it's only been 8 hours, what exactly would they be seeing? Maybe there imagination,? Or something the prison does with it that makes the prisoner see whatever the prison wants them to see.?
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/03/opinion/longer-sentences-do-not-deter-crime.html
http://time.com/4596081/incarceration-report/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ethics-in-question/201509/harsh-justice
http://criminology.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DWG-GeneralDeterrenceHighlights14Feb2013.pdf
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/ffct-prsn/index-en.aspx
https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/ccs-ajc/rr02_1/rr02_1.pdf
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22912075
https://mg.co.za/article/2015-05-07-crime-and-punishment-dont-add-up
https://www.aclu.org/other/10-reasons-oppose-3-strikes-youre-out
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-so-successful-2014-12
https://www.prisonersabroad.org.uk/News/rehabilitation-not-recidivism-norways-success-in-keeping-re-offending-rates