Mind Wipe

[Lorien1]

If the technology was available present day,would you support wind wipe (as in passing through gethsemane) as a punishment? Colin.<*>.

 

[Mariel]

I think it might be a good idea. It would lower the amount of people in prison. But I'm sure that there would be people who would be against it as a violation of human rights.
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[markpud]

Its a tough choice again, I think the main points against it are similar to those of capital punishment, what if someone gets wiped and is later found to be innocent. That's why we don't have the death penalty any more, and hopefully all civilised nations will remove it soon.

I think it would take some adjusting to, and people would get attacked because of what they'd done before the wipe, so presumably it would have to be done in conjunction with the witness protection people to relocate the wiped people away from the area where they committed their crime(s).

Once case of someone reverting to type after a wiping would be enough to stop people ever trusting it.....

 

[Mariel]

Originally posted by markpud
what if someone gets wiped and is later found to be innocent.

But the mind wipe was done after a telepath scanned the criminal. So I don't think it would be a problem.
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[Lorien1]

I would support it.Thought alot about it,unlike capital punishment, if there is a mistake,the persons not dead.Not an ideal situation,but i think the pros out weigh the cons.Colin.<*>.

 

[Rowan]

Thinking

Been thinking and watching this thread. Some interesting stuff here.

I'd have to go with the wipe. A couple of reasons.

#1: The person has been proven guilty not only in a court of law [by their peers] but by unshakable proof [telepathic scan]. We're going on the assumption that the scan is honest and valid and *not* done with someone else's personal agenda in mind.

#2: The person, after being wiped, is rehabilitated and returned to society to provide useful service to the society they have harmed.

Not much comfort to the families of the victums, but a better solution that imprisionment for many years at government expense and the possibility of them guilty party finding a loop-hole to get out on [as happens today].

Rowan

 

[roadster]

Wasn't there a similar thing in the original Star Trek series? I seem to remember Kirk on a "penal planet" being subjected to a "mind-wipe" device be someone. The device was supposed to erase criminal behavior so the guilty party could be re-introduced into society.

 

[Mariel]

I don't know. I was a little to young for that one :blush:
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[Lorien1]

Originally posted by roadster
Wasn't there a similar thing in the original Star Trek series? I seem to remember Kirk on a "penal planet" being subjected to a "mind-wipe" device be someone. The device was supposed to erase criminal behavior so the guilty party could be re-introduced into society.

Hi There.Not too sure about that one,i will pick the brains of a Trekker! Colin.<*>.

 

[markpud]

I do vaguely remember that episode, there was a mind-wipe device, which was a big doctor's chair and some TOS gizmos. Can't recall too much about the plot other than that Kirk almost got wiped at one point...