Wednesday, April 26, 2006

I just came up with a brilliant idea

In order to deter criminals from committing crimes, we should institute a punishment system in which the convicted felon must read a scientific journal from cover to cover. He/she must read every single scientific research paper published in that journal and then write a paper to critique the research involved in each of the paper. They will still be in prison, but that's what they must do with their free time. What better way to purify the criminal mind than with the sheer, staggering weight of scientific research?

3 comments:

Emily said...

But your idea has no productive value. Who knows? Maybe we'd have more advances in science if we put them to work.

Grayson said...

Sure it does. It lowers the population and also eliminates the cost of incarciration.

wendy said...

i think that's ingenious torture idea. i research is hard for the brain - very stressful job.