by Christyl Rivers

Created on: August 27, 2010

Kill the Prisoners, Save the Pandas

Ted Bundy grew up in the same town as I did.  We attended the same schools.  Ted Bundy is thought to have murdered more than 50 young women. He did all of it for free, or at very low cost.  When he was executed in Florida, many years later, costs of more than $5 million dollars were billed to us, the tax payers.  Of course this doesn’t include the costs of his other trials and living/dying expenses. Later, the Green River Killer murdered a much larger number of young women, but plea bargaining ensured his life.  Unlike Bundy, he did not study law at my school.  

My immodest proposal is that we either get as efficient as the killers in our state sponsored murder, or we scrap it entirely, and provide “lobotomies to go” with price tags of about $10 dollars.  Or would this too, be considered cruel and unusual? It depends on when.  Lobotomies a few decades ago were considered healing.

Government supported murder, as practiced in fewer than 60 nations, does make a difference.  Studies have shown it incites violence and murder.  With this is mind, it is logical that murder both criminalized and legal, do in fact control population growth.  That is, dead people do not add carbon footprints to the world except for their disposal costs.  This is true even if you are a climate change denier.

Already climate change is creating refuges, and food shortage, as in Pakistan and Russia. Such desperation inevitably leads to more murders, so murdering the murderers will effectively have a cascade effect that helps reduce carbon footprints almost as quickly as the coming plagues will do. 

Mrs. Bundy, (Ted’s mum) was a very kind lady.  It turns out that the murderer’s family do have to pay some costs, assuming having her child murdered upset her. Thus, we find that we live in a place where non-criminals do have to pay for crimes they did not commit.  But then as is often pointed out, victims, their families, and all society pays as well.  Maybe punishing those guilty by association is all part of the culling, and we can alter what is worthy of death penalty punishments as we devolve.  Surely the frayed fabric of society will wear down into vengeance crime and vicious vendettas.  Not pretty, perhaps, but effective in cutting population.

The following is based entirely on facts, so should not be expected to sound unbiased,

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