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Should a Convicted Child Molester Get a Heart Transplant at Tax Payer Expense?

Should a Convicted Child Molester Get a Heart Transplant at Tax Payer Expense?

  • He should be released because he's sick and tax payers should pay for the transplant if he cannot.

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  • He should be released and the tax payers should not be on the hook for his care.

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  • I don't know

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3. The state has an obligation to provide reasonable medical care to the prisoner, at taxpayer expense, to ensure he can reasonably live out his natural life. So, is a heart transplant part of his natural life or is it an extension of his natural life? They answer that question in the link I posted above also.

4. Quality of life - While the merit system has long been determined to not be fair, the quality of life afforded by the transplated organ to it's recipient is. Who will have a better quaity of life? Will it be a pedophile serving time in a state prison under the watchful eye of armed guards or will it be an average Joe who has never broken a law in his life, beyond traffic laws, and wants to help raise his kids and maybe even his grandkids? Which recipient will have a greater quality of life?

I think these two points by TDZ are perfect. I think a heart transplant is extending you life. Many people cannot afford to have a heart transplant, or any major surgery, even with insurance. And what happens if he is eventually released from jail and then can't afford the meds after that and dies? That is a heart wasted. Or he gets put on some sort of government program to pay for his meds and he continues to be a burden to us. If he cannot do any good by extending his life because he is in jail, then someone else who might cure cancer or do some real good for the world should get the heart. The law may not allow for this as it is now, but I think something should be done to make this right.
 
have you ever read Peter Rothfuss? a favorite phrase that has stuck with me from his books; one character is threatning another



i've admired that imagery ever since i read it.

You know CP what is great about multiple personalities? The fact that you can't put the innocent in jail. As long as my bad personality is dealin' out vigilante justice and my good personality keeps narcin' on him I'm a free man.
 
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