If a blood sport became legal, would you have anything to do with it?
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Personally I wouldn't due to a bad experience watching bull fighting on holiday which resulted in the matador losing an arm. It's a type of memory that I wouldn't want repeated.
I think the traditional response to such a thing is to train yourself to become totally awesome (ideally with the help of someone from a vague region of the far east) then climb to the top on a mountain of foes and then justbefore you collect your prise rant about how evil such games are before killing the people in charge and dissappearing into the night.
I for one intend to honour that tradition.
I for one intend to honour that tradition.
Generally in most movies society is a total piece of shit and have no morals at all. So I'll be saying no to this. Regardless of who is in the arena, it'd be no different from sitting on a rooftop with some popcorn watching a war go on as one side blows the fuck out of another and vice-versa.SUPA FRANKY said:
The second something like this is accepted, I give up hope in society. However, when a chunk of people ***** about video games, I'd expect them to ***** even more about blood sport. They'd probably blame video games for it!
Protest it. I'm against the idea of exacution anyway, so making a sport out of it would just be a sham.
Seconded. Modern sports are simply too dull to watch, due to the fact that they don't contain enough premeditated violence.xRagnarok19 said:
I think it would be good entertainment to watch rapists and murderers rip eachother apart in different death arenas. Of course, I wouldn't want them to be forced to do it, but it should be an option for them in exchange to gain certain benefits (like parole opportunities or better prison accomodations etc.)
No, I wouldn't, because I'd move to an underground building in the middle of fucking nowhere armed to the teeth with guns, ammo, and supplies to last me a few lifetimes, and surround the entire area with death traps because any society that happily engages in blood sports is one I want to keep the fuck away from at all costs.
Im against execution as well, since executing criminals implies an admission that the legal system is perfect and never does anything wrong (which it clearly does).Evil the White said:
That said, if some criminals get bored of being imprisoned for life, it could be an option for them to partake in blood sports as a way to get a better deal out of their current situation in exchange for putting their lives on the line.
Society doesn't believe that these criminals will ever become productive and useful members again anyway (otherwise they wouldn't be locked up for life), at the very least they could provide the general public with some entertainment.
Something tells me that protesters would be contestants... not the big names, but those who are there to get knocked out in the first few rounds to show people how serious this is.Evil the White said:
But then in some ways, you are adding glamour to the life of a convict, and removing the whole point of the life sentence.Housebroken Lunatic said:
What's the explicit point of life sentence?Evil the White said:
Personally, I don't see it as "punishment" anymore. "Punishment" and the hope that the criminal is detered from further criminal activity would be to lock the criminal up for a specific duration and make him/her learn from the experience that if you commit crime you'll have to spend several years in a not so glamourous and luxurious enviroment.
When you're sentenced to life in prison, it's more of a matter of keeping people deemed to be irrevocably harmful to others AWAY from the population at large. You could have killed these people off instead, because it would be cheaper. But that wouldn't be reasonable due to the fact that you can accidentally lock up the wrong person, and the system isn't perfect and all that. So keeping them locked up for the rest of their lives would be better, since it gives the opportunity to find further evidence in case the wrong person has been sentenced.
But there's no need to force them to suffer for the entire duration. They're not getting out anyway, so they can't commit further crimes against others as it is. So why not offer them the opportunity to earn better accomodations and such? I mean they'll only cost society money by sitting here waiting to die, so why not give them the option to partake in blood sports that will ultimately benefit society?
I mean, an industry will soon form around these blood sports and betting corporations will pick it all up and make the money go round. And also, the inherent risk of dying in these sports will make sure that people who could sit until they are 100 years old, costing money all the way, die off way before that and save society a lot of money in the process.
The way I see it, as long as the convicts aren't forced to partake in these blood sports, there's no real harm done. Let the serial killers, rapists and child molesters rip eachother up on prime time tv if they wish to do so pn their own volition. I mean, inmates already do this already behind bars as it is, so it won't exactly be a shortage of bloodthirsty berserkers to let loose on eachother in these death arenas.