What if every human being who committed an inhuman act, and given second chances failed to be taken, was put into a rocket and shot into the sun?
My opinion is that first it would aid in controlling population. Two is that it would leave a more thoughtful, intelligent minority to spawn into a more informed and respectful society. Three is that we’ll conserve resources that the people used–and a smarter human mind will find solutions to our depleting resources on this earth.
Give clear explanations and reasonable examples. I’ll love reading diverse opinions
1 - Who gets to determine what an “inhuman act” is?
2 - Who determines guilt?
3 - Being shot into the sun sort of limits the appeals process. No system of justice is perfect. How many innocent people are you willing to shoot into the sun in the name of progress?
4 - Why the sun? That seems like a very wasteful use of resources. There are lots of easier and cheaper ways to kill people than to build each one a one-shot rocket capable of reaching the sun. Especially if you’re thinking of doing this enough to impact overall human population levels.
5 - You make the unspoken assumption that “committing an inhuman act” correlates to “low intelligence”. I don’t think that assumption is supported by historical data.
Well, one GQ answer is that shooting something into the Sun is a lot more energy-intensive than, say, shooting them to Mars or Jupiter.
The reason is that to shoot someone into the Sun, you have to counteract all the inertia that’s keeping them orbiting the Sun when you start out. Given that they’re moving around the Sun at a pretty fair clip, this requires a lot of fuel, and that’s just to get them to stop orbiting; to actually move them towards the Sun faster than they’ll naturally fall requires even more fuel.
On the other hand, getting someone to Mars requires imparting to them enough extra velocity to move them to an orbit near Mars, which works with their current inertia, not against it. Their current velocity relative to the Sun is actually something in your favor in this case. Now, just giving them the bare minimum to move their orbit out to eventually impact on Mars is going to be really, really slow, but it’ll take less fuel than the bare minimum needed to get them to impact the Sun.
It’s very, very difficult to send a rocket into the sun.
That’s counter-intuitive, I know. One would think the gravity of the sun would draw it right in.
But most objects shot towards the sun just end up in orbit around the sun. To actually have the rocket’s payload truly “shot into the sun” takes far, far more fuel than just orbiting the sun does.
An inhuman act is something that we as humans know is wrong, such as torturing a helpless animal/human, killing innocent people with no reason, or raping. Things only a truly messed up person could do.
Well, the whole reason I posted this was to get factual answers. I really can’t explain anything behind this. It was just a random idea, I haven’t done research on it.
No, committing crimes against anyone or anything shows your insanity and heartlessness. You can’t justify why a person tortures another without reason. The only reason would be that they’re cruel and don’t deserve to live to destroy other peoples’ lives.
By building rockets to send to the sun? Really? Are you unfamiliar with every other method of killing people? Because every single one of them is far less resource-intensive than building rockets to send to the sun.
Is there a single example in all of human history of a law/punishment preventing a behavior entirely?
If hanging every horse thief and murderer in the Old West wasn’t enough to prevent horse-thieving and murdering, why do you think that shooting them into the sun would be any different?
What is described in the OP sounds like a recipe for totalitarian leaders, sneaky criminals and frightened innocents.
So, failing the ability for civilization to actually, physically shoot them into the sun, you’re *completely *out of ideas? We take that out of the equation and your whole proposal just falls apart like a house of cards?
A direct trajectory into the sun requires a lot of energy, but I’ve read of cases where unmanned probes took a very circuitous route to their destination. The Galileo probe flew by Venus and Earth, twice, on its way to Jupiter. Could we use a close flyby of another planet to redirect our inhuman scum onto a path that would intersect the sun?
