Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!enmasse!mroddy From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Sell the bastards [death penalty, etc.] Message-ID: <249@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 18:21:47 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.249 Posted: Sat Dec 22 18:21:47 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:42:11 EST References: <754@oliven.UUCP> <1119@ut-ngp.UUCP> <812@security.UUCP> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 12 > > Sounds like a good idea to me, but what happens if you 'rent' a slave who was > convicted of murder. I'd hate to get blown away by a slave because he > doesn't do windows. I think it was Larry Niven who first suggested, (proposed?) that as transplant technology matured, and the demand for parts increased, society would start using its prison population as a spare parts bank. Unfortunately, as the demand for parts increased, the number of capital offenses grew to include parking violations. Maybe this would solve the handicapped parking flame as well.