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Digital Detention Act
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| Bernard_Oriel | Date: Monday, 25 Jul 2011, 7:46 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Seeing that in many cases detention is not an effective means of reforming citizens who commit crimes. Equally, execution is rather too quick and easy a way out for offenders who have committed ultimate crimes against the citizens of the Empire.
Inspired by the research of Mr Pluto Cratwright, surgeon-general and chief psychiatric doctor of the Vjun Mental Institution we have rolled out a small scale trial of "digital detention". This solution places the individual in a "artificial hell", in this simulator their consciousness is subjected to infinitely greater punishment than a human can survive and at a fraction of the staffing cost.
Hell is admittedly a term borrowed from religion, but a useful one. It signifies a place of punishment through which an individual may be sent in order to penalise him beyond a simple death. I propose the commencement of rolling out three facilities, located on Vjun, Alurion and small sealed alien quarters of Imperial Center. The project will require an investment of 50,000,000 Imperial Credits at each site.
These small relatively sealed communities would prove a perfect test ground for digital detention as word of mouth is able to spread the deterrent effect to a great degree and provides a model in minature for effective punishment elsewhere. The Digital Detention would be given to prisoners (in the initial trials rapists and murderers) and they would be severely punished in the digital detention in a manner most destructive to their personalities. Thus they will be broken down and will pay the ultimate price for their crimes.
Who would commit a crime when he was threatened with his very self being destroyed (or so it would feel) daily. These digital punishments would provide the same role the concept of hell does in religious societies, a derrant and a fate to be avoided. Thus the laws would be obeyed through fear of a hell which was not just a nebulous concept, but a real and very agonising reality. All of this would be induced via a spinal connection between computers and human brains, avoiding the causation of any physical damage.
We expect this will act to not only lower the levels of executions for extreme crimes but also serve to help rehabilitate criminals for lesser offences in future (a study will be conducted into non-indefinite terms for minor criminals). It will revolutionise prison facilities, prisoners can be detained humanely and comfortably for the rest of their adult lives. Never again will we have to prematurely end a life.
In a weeks digital detention an individual might experience a hundred years in his mind in a dark cell. What better punishment could be given to those who seek to destroy our society?
Bernard Oriel
Senator for the Planet of Vjun
1st Earl Malreaux (Second Creation)
Vjun Delegation to the Imperial Senate
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| Slai-Fon | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 11:45 AM | Message # 2 |
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| I have a question, Senator Oriel. Uh... Whom do you expect to pay this. 50,000,000 Credits? Also, I have a bad feeling about putting one of these thing's in the Coruscant Alienage. Seem's to me that a few over-zealous aliens would try to attack the base.
Slai-Fon Youngblood, Senator of Anobis, and the Bright Jewel sector
Chairman of ISEC (Imperial Senate Ethic's Committee.)
Chairman & CEO of K/Y deep.
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| Eli_Fitzgerald | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 12:24 PM | Message # 3 |
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| The purpose of detention, or indeed the death penalty, is not simply to punish criminals but to remove them from society so they can't continue to molest innocent people. Detention, and the death penalty, are adequate for this. I will support no measure that calls for punitive torture of prisoners, and considering Dr. Cratwright's record on this and other issues the University of Cambrielle will be submitting a petition to the Bormea & Darpa Sector Education Cooperative to withdraw recognition of the Vjun Mental Institution as a legitimate institution for as long as the doctor enjoys a position of privilege there (I hope Senator Thanatos and Senator Cambrist will encourage their institutions to sign this petition too).
In addition to voting against the measure I also note that if Dr. Cratwright has taken an oath to "do no harm" as most do in his profession, his preoccupation with "infinitely greater punishment than a human can survive" thoroughly disregards this oath and is all the more reason not to take the doctor seriously.
Eli Fitzgerald
Senator of Ralltiir (10 BBY—Present)
"I was elected to do some flamethrowing in the Senate. To a light a fire under those Senators and make it hot for them."
Message edited by Eli_Fitzgerald - Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 12:27 PM |
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| Exar_Ray | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 2:28 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Torture, Senator Oriel. You suggest we torture the minds of those that did us wrong. Such an act is very inhumane against the able bodies of this Galactic Empire, and yes while I agree that those that seek to destroy our order should be brought to justice and dealt with swiftly, we are no better then them if we strap them to a machine and allow their minds to think that they are in a virtual hell or such. I vote against this act.
Message edited by Exar_Ray - Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 2:29 PM |
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 2:59 PM | Message # 5 |
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| No, Senator, this is not an alright form of punishment for any kind of offense. Inhumane against any kind. Chandrilia votes firmly against this act.
Ilanah R. Thanatos
Senator of Chandrila
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| LomenRyuun | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 3:33 PM | Message # 6 |
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| I question the mental stability of Doctor Cratwright for the invention of such a device. From what I have read, those who love to torture in such a fashion could well sociopaths. However, certain aspects of his invention might be useful. A digital prison could cut down on riots, the need for as many guards or even as large of facilities. We could save a large amount of money by simply hooking them to a machine that replicates a cell rather than keeping them in an actual cell.
Lomen Ryuun
Senator, Doldur Sector
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| Tremaine_Fowlkes | Date: Tuesday, 26 Jul 2011, 5:25 PM | Message # 7 |
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| Telos IV and myself firmly votes against Senator Oriel's proposal for "Artifical Hell." No matter what the crimes are, no one deserved that type of punishment.
Tremaine Fowlkes
Senator of Telos IV
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| Senator_Ordan | Date: Wednesday, 27 Jul 2011, 10:49 AM | Message # 8 |
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| I vote in favour. Let criminals meet their fates.
Raar
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| Bernard_Oriel | Date: Friday, 09 Sep 2011, 1:36 PM | Message # 9 |
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| I withdraw this motion as it appears to lack support. I am sad to see so many Senators giving an endorsement to Capital punishment in this way. Digital Hells provide an avenue for miscarriages of justice to be reversed, but sadly it seems that we will continue to see those few fortunes who slip through the system simply dying.
Bernard Oriel
Senator for the Planet of Vjun
1st Earl Malreaux (Second Creation)
Vjun Delegation to the Imperial Senate
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| Sate_Pestage | Date: Wednesday, 14 Sep 2011, 8:16 PM | Message # 10 |
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| So ordered, the measure is withdrawn.
Sate Pestage
Grand Vizier of the Empire
Assistant to Emperor Palpatine
Chair of the Imperial Senate
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