Would you rather get life in prison or the Death sentence?

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

Aielyn said:

YukanaSenix said:
There is a prison i think in Norway,Sweden or so where you live like a god in there.

HD TV,Gaming PCs and everything you want in general.
If i get into that prison i would live in Prison...Everywhere else,especially outside of middleeurope > Please kill me.

This is it : http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083_2137368,00.html

Presumably Norway. Norway is quite remarkable, because they have perhaps the nicest and most lax prisons in the world, and I think their longest jail sentence is 21 years or something... and yet, they have extremely low levels of recidivism and people who come out exclaim that they never want to be back.

I think that has less to do with their prisons and more to do with their culture.

Culture, it's the one thing EVERYBODY seems to ignore when comparing countries and trying to figure out what policys work best... yet it's the one facet of our lives that has a serious noticeable effect on everything from crime rates, to how long you'll live naturally to productions levels, unemployment, corruption...

practically everything involving a human really.

As for the above...  Life in prison.

Why?   I'd be alive.

Prison isn't THAT bad.  

I mean hell... is being a prisoner really much worse then being your average person in mideviel times?

Farm, then spend the rest of your day lieing in bed to not waste energy while some asshole king took all of your profit?

At least in prison your time is yours... you can read and shit... be well behaved you get all kinds of priveledges.

Heck I mean i bet there are corners of the world where people would sign up to go to US prisons just to get out of the hell holes they live in now.

I fully agree with everything you just said. Which is also disturbingly why I'm such a death penalty proponent. I DON'T want someone, for example, that raped a girl, murdered someone (well murder, not so much accidental manslaughter), or some other heinous thing to have a life better than some poor, honest, unlucky, person whose only fault was just being born in the wrong place, at the wrong time.