i'd love to believe that, it would take genetic manipulation.

i hate it, the chinese do it, and we haven't for a while, (nuremberg notwithstanding) but execution would be the only fate that would put the fear of godde into them enough to stay on the straight and narrow, and even then some psycho risk-junkies would crap out, just to see if they could.

it's just so hard to eradicate selfishness and the corollary disprespect once it's installed in the person's OS from childhood, until we raise everyone with a conscience people will act out, and never so much as when they can gamble everything on it...

same reasons priests rape kids, the thrill of what's taboo, sociopathic urge to push the envelope in living a double life...

if you can't find /or have blocked out real, then the ache of life lacking meaning can give rise to a compulsion in some to go to the other edge, to live life with greater complexity and inner drama than what most accept more or less grumblingly...

that's what happens when adult bodies encase immature, unevolved value systems, it's fucked but there it is.

extreme fear would keep them straight, until we raise enough generations right, without implanting the terrible fears and insecurities, the existential dread that then gets covered up by anger, slow or fast-burning, because. their. life. should. be. better. than. this. they. got. gypped. and. someone. is. going. to. pay.

whoa this sounds like i'm channeling tony perkins on his way to the shower...

raise 'em right, or have to go medieval on 'em later.
cast secret ballots for who gets to be executioner, and of course cut him/her some slack over and above the fat paycheck (to pay for therapy?), hell they should have given eliot all the naughties he wanted, he was sticking it the Man, (as well as his 'escorts'!

semi-snark

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~