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wiredog Feb 7, 2023

Paging Mr Niven, Mr Larry Niven…

wiredog Feb 7, 2023

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jigsaw_Man

The Jigsaw Man - Wikipedia

Dr James J Teeth Feb 7, 2023

@wiredog

I see someone already updated that Wikipedia page.

Mark vW Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon If you can buy your way out of prison with organs, can you buy your way out with money?

What if your kids offer their organs to buy you out? Will that work?

Jimmy Barnes Feb 8, 2023

@markvonwahlde @jimgon what if you buy organs and supply them

@markvonwahlde

If you have money you probably aren’t going to prison.

Unless you steal from rich people.

Mark vW Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon The parents do.

ANTIFAbadgebunny Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon a boring dystopia 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

olub0de Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon what could go wrong?

Patricia Kayden Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon Dang. That's sounds like a dystopian, nightmarish film plot.

Chris Thomas Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon just in case you didn't think prisons are a reincarnation of the old institutions of slavery.

Lizzy Miller Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon ...That is *not* how to solve the problem of not having enough organ donors. What the everlasting hell.

I am Jack's Lost 404 Feb 8, 2023

New defense strategy:

But judge, the accuser has the same blood type as me. THEY'RE FRAMING ME TO HARVEST MY ORGANS!

ClauClauClaudia Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon @Popehat For all the talk of “bodily autonomy”, one wonders whether they even *thought* of talking with an ethicist before writing this bill.

garo

Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon the horror ☹️😧

what is the matter with people

klausfiend has moved Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon what the actual fuck

Gimpleg Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon I don't think it will see the light of day, but "sell your body for reduced sentences" really feels dystopian as fuck

Tricia Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon Horrifying! Isn’t this against the law?

@SLOTricia

Not if the state make it legal.

(It won’t get out of committee.)

Led By Gilded Fools Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon
Clonus (1979 movie) Parts for the rich. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts:_The_Clonus_Horror

Parts: The Clonus Horror - Wikipedia

Joseph Simko Feb 8, 2023

Larry Niven was on to something....

Oggie Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon I keep thinking about Niven every time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/07/08/united-nations-concerned-about-organ-harvesting-in-china/amp/

Mushifoot Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon Slightly less coercive.

United Nations Concerned About Organ Harvesting In China

In June 2021, a group of U.N. independent experts expressed their concerns at allegations of organ harvesting carried out on minority groups including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.

Forbes

@jimgon wat

@jimgon private prisons are already evil enough !!

@Seansmith @jimgon I did time in a private prison. While I hate what they stand for, it was much better than the state run prisons. Better facilities, better good, better medical care, and better law libraries.

Don

Feb 8, 2023

@chrisapplegate @jimgon you make a great point, much like like the IRS and other state revenue systems, state funded enterprises are usually underfunded and understaffed! In a perfect world, the entire US prison system would be overhauled!

@Seansmith @chrisapplegate

The way we treat people convicted of a crime is generally immoral. We need sentencing reform and prison reform.

@jimgon @Seansmith I couldn't agree with you more. I work in criminal justice reform now. Also, I live in Kentucky where the Constitution still takes the voting rights of someone convicted of a felony in perpetuity.

@Seansmith @jimgon I often say that I'm a better man now, in spite of prison, rather than because of it. There is no rehabilitation or corrections going on there. The guards are the drug dealers. I told the warden once that, if I'd really understood the system, I'd have just gotten a job in corrections in order to sell drugs and avoid prosecution. Yes, it definitely needs overhauling, but it brings in far too much money to the state, here at least, in order for the government to consider that.

PlineyTheNewer 🇺🇦🌻Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon They need to read Larry Niven’s work. It got to the point in his universe that EVERYTHING was a capital offense, and the only sentence was death, and complete harvesting of everything useful.

William B. Turner Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon. Yeah, I was puzzled to see this coming from Massachusetts. Seems more like Mississippi.

@wbtphdjd

Massachusetts has many moments where one would not be proud. I think on the whole though we try to be better.

Dealiah Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon For a moment I thought I was in the middle of a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Hideous idea.

Stan Wonn 🏳️‍🌈 🌹Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon This is a barbaric idea.

@jimgon They cited the need to expand the organ donor pool for minorities, since so many were locked up, that's where they expanded to. Seems like maybe they could just fix the disparity in the criminal justice system, to me.

Darryl Ramm Feb 8, 2023

What's the organ bounty on a Massachusetts lawmaker?

Seiðr Feb 8, 2023

@jimgon The sadistic psycopaths unmask themselves.

Arnfinn Pettersen Feb 8, 2023