# I'm Going to Bite Off More than I Can Chew Again I Think On This One **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 13, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348 "2001-09-13T14:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348/61 "2001-09-14T01:09:30Z")
This one’s simple: All you gotta do is decide what kind of person you are, and consider a little humility. People who have done this are beyond possible punishment, there crimes are that great. To torture them as “punishment” or retribution is to put a small price indeed upon the lives lost and the suffering caused. You can’t pay these people back. You can’t exact retribution. Their capacity for suffering is tiny compared to the pain they’ve caused and the books can never be balanced. Yes, if and when we catch them they should be executed. A rabid dog must be destroyed, so you do it, but it brings no pleasure, offers no retribution. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348/62 "2001-09-14T22:54:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > \*\*Wouldn’t keeping Bin Laden in jail make his release a potential hostage demand? Would this not light the fuse to more violence? > > Killing him would make his a martyr, so that’s not a solution either. > How about public defamation of character? People can do some amazing things with Photoshop nowadays. (I’ve got this nude picture of Britney Spears that I sweat looks…err, I digress) How about a few pictures of our buddy Osama, made to look as if taken by hidden camera, engaging in acts of sodomy, then a few million copies of the pictures dumped out over various spots in the middle east? > > Those people might not yet be aware of what one can do with the right software. > > Just a thought. \*\* Ahh yes, defaming bin Laden _South Park_ style. I don’t think it really matters to him. I say put him in a public glass prison in a public square for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348/63 "2001-09-14T23:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > \*\* > How about public defamation of character? People can do some amazing things with Photoshop nowadays. (I’ve got this nude picture of Britney Spears that I sweat looks…err, I digress) How about a few pictures of our buddy Osama, made to look as if taken by hidden camera, engaging in acts of sodomy, then a few million copies of the pictures dumped out over various spots in the middle east? > \*\* [hijack] Did anybody else see the story that some of the hijackers were at titty bars in Daytona Beach getting lap dances the night before? I wonder how this plays among the fundamentalists back home. Dismissed out of hand I guess… [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348/64 "2001-09-14T23:33:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wildest Bill \* > \*\*Let me ask this question then to the people that do like this suggestion. > > What would you suggest the terrorist punishment be? > > The only reason I brought this up is because I know these wackos aren’t afraid to die. Punishments are hopefully designed to deter crime. So prison won’t work. Reletively painless executions won’t work. So I was thinking a severe painful death might get their attention. > > \*\* Ok, I’ll bite here. I submit that even a death by torture would not be seen as so horrible a thing, since they see what they have done to advance their sadly misguided “cause”. So then what? 1. First, show that we are not the foul animals that they are, deny them that victory. Let them sit in prison for an eternity, but do not give them the victory of [sub]what they see as[/sub] a martyr’s death. 2. Crush their dream. Make sure that America and other things which they loath remain powerful. Make them watch. Let them see that what they have done was a waste of time. This might require America to genuinely reach out and embrace right thinking Muslims as friends instead of feared strangers. Not sure that we could pull it off, but it may be possible. Should have started this one before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-bite-off-more-than-i-can-chew-again-i-think-on-this-one/81348.md?page=3)