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Message: [QUOTE="Danoff, post: 13515123, member: 8497"] It's not avoiding justice, and I don't think I specified that a criminal wishing to commit suicide should be assisted. I was merely stating that they shouldn't be stopped. I think if that's true it has mostly to do with people just wanting to deprive someone of something they "want". Not that our criminal in this case was suicidal, but they that they might [I]choose [/I]suicide seems like somehow giving them something they want, and that feels somehow like injustice. The prescription shouldn't be about what they want, it should be about what [I]we[/I] want. The goal of the criminal justice system (I'll say again), is not to punish. It's not to torture. The US judicial system is designed to either remedy, rehabilitate, or protect society. Telling someone that they cannot commit suicide achieves none of those goals. I suppose if I squint I could see some kind of enslaved labor as roundabout serving the goal of remedy, if some assumed wages for the enslaved labor were sent to the victim or something. But that's pretty perverse. Garnishing wages is something we do for, but preventing someone from killing themselves so that they can work as a slave for someone else is probably cruel and unusual punishment. I think if some horrible criminal wants to off themselves, they're doing us all a favor and we should absolutely clearly let them. [/QUOTE]