Right to death

[heslopian]

The "we" I'm referring to is society. I'm just trying to imagine a society where people like Brady are subjected to lifelong psychological torture. Keeping serial killers away from the general public for the rest of their lives to me isn't about revenge but about protection; protecting other potential victims. In the case of a car thief or a wife beater, someone whose crime won't keep them inside until they die, it is I suppose more about punishment, but punishment for a useful end. When you smack a child for swearing at the dinner table it isn't because you want revenge on them, even though it is a punishment, but because you want to teach them a lesson. You want to teach them how to behave in civilised society. People like Brady, however, have reached a point where they can't be trusted to play a part in society ever again, so we remove them from it.
If you want to live in a world where people's hands and tongues are removed, kept naked in cells and tortured, take a time machine back to the middle ages, when you could also be subjected to such punishment for holding a certain religious belief, having an affair, being gay, or not saluting your commanding officer at exactly the right moment.
I'm not saying you're wrong for having the opinion you do, I'm just saying I strongly disagree with it.