The Big Three

Since I'm on a roll, let me go cut-and-paste something I wrote in someone else's blog...(Takde keje lain lah katakan...)

First and foremost, let me refer you to the post I got the questions from...no fair lah if I don't credit the person, no? Anyway, I have no idea who the person is which is pretty much the norm when it comes to the cybercommunity. Do I wish to know the person? Not really. Do I secretly wish I know the person? Erm, yeah. Do I wish the person to know that I know the person him/herself? Hell, no. I'm bloody secretive, in that sense. Actually, I just like the unfair advantage of the situation. Anyway,I digressed! Shit.

Back to the main point: Refer yourself to the following link - primarybasic

Anyway, ta-da....

QUESTIONS (duh)

1. If you knew you could double your money, easily and certainly, in two years, by investing in a company whose activities you seriously disapprove of, would you do it?

2. Should the goal of the penal system be to remove criminals from public, deterring crime by punishment, or rehabilitating wrongdoers?

3. You've been given the responsibility of packing away any three items in a time capsule to be opened up in 400 years. What would you put in there to give folks an idea of what life is like in the early 2000s?

RESPONSES (double duh)

1. Nope.

2. Frankly, the goal of any penal system should be the reduction of crime (since eradication is next to impossible in today's world.). The three are simply methods in order to achieve that goal of reducing crime rates and thus should be used in accordance to the offence that has been made. The removal of criminals from the public serves a dual purpose of protecting the public while at the same time, giving the criminal a chance to look back at his own mistakes and derive some kind of lesson. However, bearing in mind that not everyone truly is repentant of their misdeeds and thus could potentially pose to be even more dangerous upon "release", perhaps the removal from public should be made permanent. In the second instance, punishment would be an effective deterrent instead of a rehabilitative tool. Hence, people might think twice about committing the offence to begin with. As for the final point, rehabilitation would be necessary for the sake of humanity for is it not human to err and thus learn from their mistakes? Rehabilitation would give people a chance to learn. Whether or not they actually do is another issue altogether. At least, the chance was given.

3. Three things...Hmmm...a microchip - to showcase the importance of technology to the world in the 2000s, a before-and-after-extreme-makeover photo - testament to a world that is fixated with the idea of superficiality and a Holy Book (in my case, it would be the Al-Qur'an) - in an amazingly sharp contrast to the obsession of all things material, show how through it all, faith survives. In all, it's supposed to present the contradictory nature of the world in the 2000s. The culmination of the Age of Extremes (at least for now).

Now, it should really end here save the fact that there's another incredibly bimbotic side of me who has her own warped responses to the questions posed. I give up understanding me. You go figure while I try to present my alter-ego's, erm..., perspective...

1. Nope. (Strangely, alter-ego seems to still have some kind of a conscience. Whether or not it survives a non-idealistic, real-life-smacks-you-and-tempts-you-in-the-face situation, is entirely another issue.)

2. Hmmm...toughie. Must I really answer it? I'm not a lawyer. Anyway, the penal system...that's like punishment system right? So punish lah...CASTRATE IF YOU MUST!!! Actually, castrate if you wish especially when it comes to those PERVS who rape their own kids!!! MORONS!! (oookkkk..so, alter-ego's PMS-ing and thus has decidedly not answered the question. typical.)

3. My darling IPOD because it contains Bird Cage, incredibly funny show, LOTR funny shots - again for tickle-me pleasures, my darling siblings' kids and of course music galore...It's like the ultimate entertainment system...ERM, you know what? I take it back...I WANT my IPOD...who the hell would put their most precious items in a friggin' capsule for some undeserving futuristic descendant to mangle with?! Ok...that would mean I have to start from scratch.(Here we go again...)

Ehem, ehem...Number 3: 3 things to put inside some stupid capsule...erm...honestly, I cdn't give a shit...Why should we make it easy for them to figure out what life "was" like on Earth 400 years earlier when we have had to go through so much trouble trying to figure out what happened yesterday? Like, duh...No easy way out for them...No, no, no...Go do some source analysis. (U-huh).
Riigghhtt....

See what I have to live with? Sigh.