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Even if this worked as promised, if someone just murdered your child for example, and they got given a 1000 year sentence that was over in an afternoon from your perspective, would you feel that justice had been done?
You can argue that yes, of course it has, they've lived a millennium being punished for their crime, but I feel the vast majority of people would feel short changed by the process.
Whether that in itself is right or wrong is a completely separate discussion. But you'd have to have it if this tech actually existed and was used as they're suggesting.
1,000 years imprisonment would drive that person insane.
Not figuratively. The human mind was not built to comprehend such timescales.
Yeh the person would either die halfway through or come out incurably insane and potentially incredibly violent.
"It's longer than you think!"
You have to decide whether imprisonment is about punishment or rehabilitation or removing threatening individuals from society.
The problem is I don't think the court system really knows what it wants to achieve either. Although it certainly didn't want to rehabilitate anyone thank you very much.
Plus another question is whether the punishment should make the family of the victim feel better or not - should it be a factor, at all? If you could literally turn someone into an OK person with the help of a 10 minute (3 day, 30 days) treatment, should we still make their suffering longer just for the family to feel they got their revenge?
You can bet a lot of people would demand a 20-year sentence with the drug.
So it feels like 20 million years for the criminal.