I know it’s a shitpost, but the idea behind something like this is counter to the point of rehabilitation. Civilization should move towards rehabilitation instead of punishment as the idea is that you want to integrate someone back into society. I am not sure inducing trauma and mental damage is conducive to rehabilitation.
Not only that would be super cruel, it would also be pretty stupid, because how are you supposed to rehabilitate someone by basically just torturing them? And also, one of the good sides of prisons is keeping dangerous people away from their (potential) victims. Imagine if someone tried to murder you, went to jail, and then they got back out in 8 hours.
Soo… since OP is a jackass, here’s the link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10697529/Prisoners-could-serve-1000-year-sentence-in-eight-hours.html
The gist (emphasis mine):
Philosopher Rebecca Roache […] said, […] “you could imagine developing a pill or a liquid that made someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence”
I can’t fathom why this is report-worthy. Was April 2014 such a boring month?
As others have said, the rehabilitation aspect is dubious. It depends on what the person "experiences" for that length of time. If there's therapy in time-dilation-space then sure go right ahead and sign me up as well. I'll just Goku-it up in my chamber of time and space and work some shit out in time for my morning shit. But you and I both know it ain't going to work that way. Prisoners will just be trapped in an empty void with only their own thoughts to keep them company, most likely rendering them insane. An infinite solitary confinement is just plain torture.
Edit: so I googled the article and its laughable how easily the author slides right in to dystopian fanfic. "This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals’ lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time." Obviously.
Don't Create the Torment Nexus.
Naturally, this is the type of thing in sci-fi where we assume it'll be used to generate massive amounts of income to benefit society in a magnificently short amount of time, and then some bastard comes around and says, "What if we incarcerate people for millenia?"
This just sounds like straight up torture with extra steps.
No rehabilitation, no isolation of dangerous individuals from the general population. I'm decidedly anti-incarceration but at least there are arguments for it in place of something functional and just.
This just doesn't solve any problems and adds some new ones. It sounds unbelievably cruel.
Nice so instead of locking somebody up for 20 years for murder, we can make it feel closer to 22 million years.
That'll fucking teach 'em!
You're not supposed to take every single piece of star trek tech and make.it a Reality and hurry up with my replicator, I'm sick of buying food.
O'Brien must suffer!!!
Showing my age here, but there's a great Improvised Star Trek episode about this exact topic, if you like improv: Time & Punishment 🤣
I can’t imagine anyone coming out sane.
Stephen King's The Jaunt
so they trap you inside of the tsukuyomi from naurto, not the infinite one, but the one Itatchi had in one eye. Where you get trapped in a mind-prison and he tortures you for over 1000 years in the span of 1 or 2 seconds outside of that.
We should be using technology to make life easier for everyone, but instead billionaires are advancing technology to cause even more suffering and strife.
As I said before. Billionaires are going straight to the boiler room of hell for all the suffering they caused and continue to cause.
"Longer than you think Dad! LONGER THAN YOU THINK!!"
-The Jaunt, Stephen King
Miles O’Brien: “Fuck you.”
I just read Junji Itos Long Dream Manga, this reminded me of that. It's a good read if you have the time.
I'd rather just kill em than trap them in a thousand years of darkness
Of all the eldritch horrors the cosmos has to offer none have more potential than some mortal apes on a random planet.
So, we can do what a bunch of aliens did to O'Brien when they tried, convicted and incarcerated him for 20 years and it was 20 minutes in real time.
Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail has a really fucked up version of that concept in it.
I wouldn't want to see how someone would react after going through something like that. Sounds like a supervillain origin story or some shit. "Jokes on you, it was a simulation! Now grab your stuff, you are free to go!"
The movie "Other life" demonstrates how this could go wrong.
Free movie on YouTube called other life that is about this
Just make them do their own taxes; same difference.
If it's used on the likes of Putin or Netanyahu, I won't complain.
