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?

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.