Microchips implanted in the brains of criminals?

[iliketoshootguns]

I know they already have house arrest technology, and the use of gps tracking to some degree on parolled felons or the soon to be incarcerated. But what if authorities took it to another level. What if rapists and violent felons who served their time were forced to have highly sophisticated microchips implanted in their brains which would track their every movement, their state of mind, and would even have a kill switch should said felon threaten another innocent life?

Would you or would you not support such a measure for certain types of felons?

 

[beerslurpy]

You must not be an engineer.

Get back to us when you invent a way to determine mental state through any sort of automated process. Neuroscientists with advanced scanning machines and carefully controlled environments have been trying to solve this problem for decades with little success.

Without a way to accomplish what you propose, supporting it is irrelevant. Why not ask whether we support a device that generated endless power or a pill that cures aging?

 

[Diamondback6]

First animals, then criminals and the "mentally ill", then the rest of us. Do you really wanna go much further down this slope?

If the technology's there to "electronically lobotomize" violent predators, then a police state can use it to do the same to the poor folks it's terrorizing so they won't take a stand for freedom.

 

[SomeKid]

Funny, I read a sci-fi book where they had such things.

They mandated that a bunch of Marines use them before going on leave. On leave, they are attacked, and all knocked unconcious when they have 'hostile thoughts'.

I can see certain PDR states mandating CCW holders have these things. Knowing our courts, they would consider it acceptable because after all, you can still exercise your 2A rights. Nevermind that you have to give up others...

 

[LAK]

There are serious programs underway in the field of chemical, drug and more general electrical brain stimulous to influence behaviour, thought, impulses etc. These have been ongoing for a long time. But chips or any other receptors to actually read peoples' minds are still a very long way off; so far off that none of us are ever likely to see it happen.

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[Ryder]

A 240 grain chip?

 

[FPrice]

Funny, I read a sci-fi book where they had such things.

There is a reason science fiction is "fiction".

 

[BryanP]

There is a reason science fiction is "fiction".

While an automated "intentions detector" is highly unlikely I might remind you that science fiction has this annoying habit of becoming science fact.

 

[FPrice]

While an automated "intentions detector" is highly unlikely I might remind you that science fiction has this annoying habit of becoming science fact.

Sometimes.

And then not always in the way it is written and supposed to be.

 

[Selfdfenz]

Are the ankle bands and GPS systems not working? Hmmm.....
But this head chip deal will be the end-all-be-all I guess? Hmmm.....

Why not just keep'em in jail?

S-

 

[MechAg94]

Why not just keep'em in jail?

I don't know. Have we ever tried that before? Sounds too risky.

 

[Preacherman]

This is just too wierd and far-out to be even funny.