Put him in with Bubba! LOL

[Godwynn]

They're uneducated, from a formal standpoint, but unintelligent? I'm not sure there is evidence for this. Stupid = criminal? Think not.

Semantics. You're right wing, economically. That = conservative (in the US). Don't go trying to pull some euro-semantic, slick Willie rhetoric on me.

I laugh.

 

[El_Machinae]

Stupid = criminal? Think not.

Well, there are certainly a large number of intelligent white-collar criminals. And "steal the office stationary" criminals are all across the spectrum.

But the main cohort of criminal that's in jail is strongly biased towards the unintelligent.

 

[Che Guava]

Murder
Rape
Kidnapping
Child Abuse

Probably many more, I can think of those off the top of my head.

Oy.....

Murder is one thing, but I really hope that you mean the premeditated 1st degree type....

Rape? As horrible as it is, would you really want to lose your human rights over a case of alleged date-rape?

Kidnapping...seeing as the vast majority of cases are custody disputes, I don't know if i could get behind that...

Child Abuse? As unpopular as it might be, I don't think even that qualifies you as less-than-human, albeit a pretty dispicable human.

 

[Godwynn]

Oy.....

Murder is one thing, but I really hope that you mean the premeditated 1st degree type....

Rape? As horrible as it is, would you really want to lose your human rights over a case of alleged date-rape?

Kidnapping...seeing as the vast majority of cases are custody disputes, I don't know if i could get behind that...

Child Abuse? As unpopular as it might be, I don't think even that qualifies you as less-than-human, albeit a pretty dispicable human.

Give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I am halfway intelligent and that I don't want to kill someone for involuntary manslaughter and . .. .. .. . like that.

 

[Che Guava]

Give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I am halfway intelligent and that I don't want to kill someone for involuntary manslaughter and . .. .. .. . like that.

But that's my point. Who or what decides who gets stripped of human rights? The judge? Does the law have the specify about thier malicious intent? An evil-o-meter?

 

[Godwynn]

But that's my point. Who or what decides who gets stripped of human rights? The judge? Does the law have the specify about thier malicious intent? An evil-o-meter?

Obviously the law will decide. Manslaughter wouldn't be executable but first degree pre-meditated would be, so on and so forth.