The Glade 4.0

Just pointing out -- he's not entitled to social security yet. He's sitting in jail, living off the public dime, UNTIL he's ready for social security. That's why he'll tell the judge he'll do it again if they don't want to stick him in jail long enough.

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He's 59...how much longer does he have?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Six years, if he wants his full bennies, I think.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

http://www.gfhs.info/about.php

Sounds like they cover a wide variety of ailments. Did he even try or look into it? No? Screwum.

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I thought it was 60? I didn't know it was 65.
Nitefox...it didn't say whether he looked into it or not.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

This is an excellent case for why welfare is necessary. You can pay them $10,000-$15,000 a year for free, or you can pay them $50,000 a year to house them in a prison.

Or, you know, you could let people die for being irresponsible and foolish ...

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Why? People are born with the genes that lead them to being irresponsible and foolish. They should be protected.

Sweet. Now I just need to get a study funded to declare that I'm born with genes that lead me to being lazy and self-gratifying, and I'll have it made.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Maybe you should be stuck in a group home in a warehouse with dozens of other people, with free food, but not left to die like Khross said.

Heh, given the right connections, I bet you really could get a study funded for that if you really tried hard enough....but if you're born with lazy genes, odds are you won't bother...

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

So the free clinic might not provide the specialized care he might get in.. prison?

Don't prisoners get MRI's, x-rays, etc? I'm not aware of what prisoners get as far as health care goes, but odds are it might be a tad bit better than a free clinic...at least, maybe that's what he was banking on.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Wait, what? They commit a crime to get into prison. Are you not going to put them into prison? How do you tell the difference between the people who are in for the free ride and the people who aren't? Are you just going to let all prisoners starve to death?

It's pretty easy to decide in this particular case that this guy is in it for the free ride.

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So obviously next time he would need to commit a greater crime...

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It seems to me the Darlek's had a phrase that goes a long way to describe a solution to the problem of people committing crimes to get benefits of jail.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

You mean Daleks?

OK, but I'm a little fuzzy on the delineation for capital punishment people who commit crimes in order to go to jail vs. people who commit crimes they know have the certain punishment of jail.

No, no - exterminate the concept of jail as a means of punishment.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

What..like go all Singapore and start caning people in the street?

Something like that, yes.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Stocks, whippings, public canings, public executions. If we make them the normal punishments they are no longer unusual. The cruel part may take some getting around.

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Exactly. Most prisons use local hospitals.

Far less cruel than separating a man from his family, and a child from his father. The child to grow up fatherless and poor, rudderless and bereft of family. The father to be subjected to the horrors of the prison system, and to be rendered unemployable, and undesirable for the rest of his life.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

It is an effective deterrent.

It would not have given this man a feasible way to get the treatments he needs. He probably would have had to have taken more drastic measures, then, and actually stolen something for the purpose of getting the money.

The problem here isn't the man. It's a society that has backed a man into a corner with no other recourse or options. (Which isn't to say I disagree with the caning option. Of course, this wouldn't have happened in Singapore. They have about the best healthcare system in the world. Rather low on the personal freedom thing, though.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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