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 had a racist Econ professor who got fired after teaching one semester.
I took a course for pre-Reconstruction US history, expecting it to be the same Plymouth to Constitution to Lincoln curriculum, but the professor was too based to let that happen. It mostly covered Native American history in North America, starting way back with the peopling of the Americas across the Bering land bridge. He also devoted an entire lecture to John Brown.
I had a Macro professor teaching the class for the first time who believed in something like Neomercantilism.
He kept saying he was going to write a book about it; but never did unless he did it under a different name.
Looks like he is still teaching the same class 10+ years later. The shit you believe as a fresh professor and the grim reality of teaching the same class till you retire. Grim.