Wasn't there a scene like that in Starship Troopers? I obviously mean the book, but I remember them explaining executing some since he'd commit suicide if he really understood the gravity of what he'd done. I think the character had murdered his own daughter. I really need to reread that one.
You might be thinking of the execution of one deserted recruits who killed a Girl. The MI executed him because he was one of their own, rather then let the police do it.
If they can't understand the law then they don't get to live in free society.
Feral dogs get put down.
Wasn't there a scene like that in Starship Troopers? I obviously mean the book, but I remember them explaining executing some since he'd commit suicide if he really understood the gravity of what he'd done. I think the character had murdered his own daughter. I really need to reread that one.
You might be thinking of the execution of one deserted recruits who killed a Girl. The MI executed him because he was one of their own, rather then let the police do it.
It's been a long time since I read it, but that sounds about right. I'm definitely going to reread that next time I go to read something fiction.
But insane people get put in an asylum, because they're not animals.
If you commit horrible crimes and can't tell right from wrong, you are an animal. Society is better off without you.
No. Horrible crimes are committed by horrible criminals or the criminally insane, neither of which is an animal.