Are you saying I should make my profile look nicer?

>>So they can be studied.<<

Another definitely strong argument.

I'll mull that one over and try not to get too anecdotal...

... my real problem here is the professionals doing the studying; having done some work along those lines I didn't find that many quality people in the field - though some of the younger SWs and MDs had the sparkle of promise.

What can we learn? "Why they kill"? I'm already leaning toward "we don't need to know that, really", is the thing. But then I'd be guilty of Hummingbird's charge and letting mere emotion influence my reasoning. So I'ma mull it.

an eye for an eye

pp: Pathological Murderers Should Be Destroyed.

what is wrong
with that?

>>
Also, should the severely handicapped or severely mentally retarded, the elderly, or people in comas be put to death simply because they will never be able to produce enough value for society?<<

I see no logical reason why that step would ever be necessitated, and reject the arguement that such people present no value. I think a very strong case could be made without ever needing to single out any individual samples / anecdotes to show that age and handicap have very little overall impact on their own dollar value.

But shit, the retarded chick sweeping up at Lenox Mall sings while she does it. A) gainfully employed B) fulfills a service, C) is pleasant and good natured (that's got to be worth a fuckload of money if studied as part of a system of money and value) and D) delights teens who recognize the pop tunes she's singing (who then return to the mall food court, employing more people, maybe even buying stuff? We should *all* strive to be as valuable as the retarded chick that sweeps up at the Lenox food court). People that are too handicapped to perform that kind of service represent more value, in my opinion, than any patho killer ever could, in terms of opportunities for research and the relative value thereof. Brain development malfunction and general physical neuro-atypical physiology is strongly indicated in patho killers ... I suggest that even the *chance* that non-killing neuro-atypicals offer more value in the study of patho killers than the killers themselves do, when factored against their danger and detriment to society as a whole.

Just a *rumor* about patho killers destroyed Hallowe'en, for instance. No case of razor-pranked or poisoned apples has *ever* been documented for Hallowe'en and yet this is the reason that there is no real balls-to-the-wall Hallowe'en for most kids around the nation any longer.

As for the super-old, the ones I've met - and I've met and hung out with more crones and codgers than most people my age by a factor of a zillion - they are worth more than most people, despite the fact that their worth is ignored by most people.