I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.
The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.
That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn't know why I felt that way.
Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.
Anyway, that's just one from me. What about the rest of you?
I once had a computer science professor say to me "Prove to me you are worthy of my support." I got the sense that was a catch phrase he used sometimes because he thought he was being very clever. He was the chairman of the department and even though I was angry - I didn't reply to him at all. But I sure wish I had.
I could have said something like "Prove to me you are actually worthy of being a professor," and then a pregnant pause "You fucking asshole," and I could have walked away. At that point it was already very clear I was never going to succeed in comp sci. I didn't have the mind for it. And somebody needed to put him in his place years ago.