2nd January 2007, 10:45 PM
Well the idea is just to keep them away from us right? Why does "suffering" need to factor into this? Keep in mind that this is not some new age thing. People have been discussing horrid jail conditions for centuries as a negative. The only reason we went on to the electric chair is because at the time, hanging was the most used method of execution and the public was starting to see that as barbaric. The moral zeitgeist moves on.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)