Prisoners for Research
by: KK
Copyright @2001

Has it ever occurred to anyone that criminals are a total waste of human life? It obviously has to me.

Prisoners live the good life. They commit a crime and get a one way ticket to housing, food, clothing and a high school or college education (whichever one they didn't start or finish). Sounds good to me, considering our homeless people can't get a meal, are living out of a box and bathe out of sewers.

My point to this story? Why is it necessary for the tax payers, the victims and the abused to have to pay for a lazy mental fuck-up to live a decent life? Instead of finding religion (which they all do out of boredom) they should be forced to live out their sentences as experiments for medical research. Instead, millions of animals are dying and being tortured to find cures for human illness, make-up products, pesticides, etc. Punishing them with 10-20 years in prison just provides them with a free ride. The only thing they learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Animals can't tell you if drug worked. They can't tell you if it stung their eyes, burned their skin, or made them sick to their stomach. A human being can tell you the results of a drug. If they die then you know the drug didn't work and that's one less prisoner the tax payers have to support.

The medical community would like you to believe that the physical make-up of an animal is very similar to a human. Really? When is the last time you saw a dog with Aids, a cat with breast cancer, a chimpanzee with prostate cancer or a mouse who needed a makeover? Oh, that's right, you only see that when the researchers infect the animals with it. Sure animals do get infected with some of the same illnesses that humans do, but they are treated differently. You don't treat a schizophrenic cat with Prozac.

Infect the useless prisoners with these disease's and let them give you a full report. A mouse can't tell you if the mascara stung it's eyes. A dog can't tell you if the medication you gave it for Aids actually made it feel better. Since cat's have several breasts, which one do you infect with the cancer? The only common factor here is that the prisoners and animals are all in cages. I would be highly entertained to watch an inmate bounce off the bars of his cage from pain, rather than a helpless animal. The animals don't have a choice. If you commit a crime, you shouldn't have a choice either...off to the lab you go. Bye, bye have a nice trip.

If an inmate commits a crime, their punishment should be to payback society by being the products of medical research. An actual human can verbally relay how a drug affected them. It would actually save the tax payers a tremendous amount of money and we just might find cures for illnesses a little faster. I would rather see 150 prisoners die trying to find cures than 150 chimpanzees. Yes, I am for the animals. It's impossible to imagine how many have died trying to find a cure for Aids and guess what folks...surprise, surprise, we still don't have a cure.

Instead we keep building prisons because idiots still commit crimes and know that the government will support their lazy asses. Let's infect your lazy asses with diseases, contain you in the cage we pay for, pump you with drugs to try and cure that disease and hope we find your dead ass in the morning. Starting to feel like a rat yet?
 

Readers Respond

05.22.02

Hi,
I have been ranting and raving for over a decade that criminals should be
our medical guinea pigs and finally, I find someone who wholeheartedly
agrees with me. Awesome! Glad you are putting that message (and others)
out there.
Shannon

P.S.  My b-day is September 24, 1967 . We are Summer of Love babies! HA,
HA!

Hello K.
I was just reading some of your rants and came upon "Prisoners for
research" . There is one little thing missing from this line of thought.
Should all criminals go through this? What if you accidentally broke some
copyright law on your website and was sentenced to a month in the slammer?
Would that be a crime bad enough to warrant the testing of chemicals for
medical purposes?
Drawing these lines is the hard part. Probably even impossible. I believe
that is why you do not see it anywhere today (officially) anywhere and
probably will not in a very long time... But one can always hope.
GhostNULL

K-Says...You're right and I didn't mean to generalize prisoners. I am
talking about the hard core, repeat offenders. Murderer's, rapists, child
molesters, etc.
It is hard to draw the line, because for every 10 people that believe in
this, there are another 10 who don't. Nothing is ever solved in this
country, because we are to afraid of stepping on someone's toes.
I also believe that much of the medical research could be on a volunteer
basis too.

I never think about things in terms of this or that country. The problems
present in our world are global. Though not the same at every place,
affecting every other place. United States does affect the surrounding
world more than most countries though so your problems are the ones that
might be worth a little bit more priority.
By the way: I do not live in the US, I live in Sweden. (fyi)
GhostNULL