So, we sometimes discuss politics in our guild, and we do come up with some interesting ideas. We want a world that is extremely safe from violence. But sadly for whatever reason we have high recidivism rates in my country (United States), we tried making the prison conditions harsher and longer sentencing but our recidivism rates for whatever reason are still high.
Basically we want to forcibly reprogram the worst criminals in such a way that they can never ever re-offend. We want this program to be an addition to their prison sentence. And some kind of regulation to keep forcible reprogramming limited to only those convicted of these crimes: Murder (both second and first degree, Rape, Grievous Assault, Torture). Someone driving 120 MPH in an 80 area would not qualify. We are only interested in enacting this extreme form of rehabilitation on monsterous people.
I believe we need to think outside the box. Right now there is research into neural link. This could enable virtual reality like nothing before. Personally, I'd love fully immersive VR and being able to have a virtual body that would feel just as real as this one. I would love a matrix like world. It is amazing what the future of gaming holds. fully immersive hardcore raiding would be amazing. I also believe neural link can allow us to send messages without typing, to allow us also to control a robotic body via Brain Computer Interface. There are said also to be medical benefits to this.
One must wonder what the future of neural link would be, and the future of brain surgery could be. I do wonder, if we ever get to the point in technology that we can literally alter thinking patterns of a person, could it be used to reprogram all violent criminals in such a way that they would be morally unable to commit another violent crime? Think about it, assuming you are a normal person, there is *ZERO* circumstance that could happen in this world that would lead you to commit rape. However, some criminals do rape, the idea is IN ADDITION to whatever prison sentence they receive, they would also be forcibly reprogrammed so that they would be mentally unable to commit rape ever again, in the same way most of us are mentally unable to commit rape ever.
Now apply this logic to all very serious crimes.
This is the idea that me and other guild officers and other guildies have been discussing. I'm pretty baffled that so little has been talked about for this idea. It's humane and does not violate human rights since we are only doing it to rapists, murderers, and grievous assaulters. A lot of states already chemically castrate pedophile rapists so forcibly mentally reprogramming should be considered a humane form of punishment since it's a form of punishment centered around rehabilitation.
I throw this suggestion with co workers and family and they think it's a pretty good idea as well.
What are your thoughts? Please do not bring up about how this violates human rights. They didn't respect the rights of their victims, and I don't think it's cruel, I think it's very humane.