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Charles Manson Reportedly Transferred to Hospital

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Sephzilla

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Strike

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That fact that he's never really taken any responsibility for what happened keeps me from having any sympathy for him.
 
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Kevtones

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He's the one 'mass murderer' I never wrote. I probably should've given the Helter Skelter stuff and how prescient it may be.
 
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MagnaderAlpha

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LucidMomentum said:
Apparently he's in my town right now at the hospital.

Do I pay him a visit?
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Bakersfield, right? I keep up with KERO's YouTube channel and saw the reports (though, I've been seeing them on local SoCali news as well). I lived in Bakersfield during the 80s and had family up there, so I like to keep up to date with some of the things going on around there.
 
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Ninja Scooter said:
How is he going to take responsibility? He's literally insane.
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I saw a documentary on him a few years ago. He kept talking about his little children were coming to rise up. He said all of those people writing him letters were going to stand up and fight. Couldn't tell if he was legit crazy or it was just a weak attempt to garner fear from the public.
 
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Kaz42 said:
I saw a documentary on him a few years ago. He kept talking about his little children were coming to rise up. He said all of those people writing him letters were going to stand up and fight. Couldn't tell if he was legit crazy or it was just a weak attempt to garner fear from the public.
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All you need is like 30 seconds of footage of him speaking to come to the realization that he's bat shit insane.
 
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MagnaderAlpha said:
Bakersfield, right? I keep up with KERO's YouTube channel and saw the reports (though, I've been seeing them on local SoCali news as well). I lived in Bakersfield during the 80s and had family up there, so I like to keep up to date with some of the things going on around there.
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Yup yup. If you play Smash Bros. and are ever in town on the weekend, let me know. I run tournaments :)
 
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I understand the concept and reasons for not having capital punishment but why do serious offenders like a serial murder have to be saved and given the best medical treatment?

There are millions of law abiding citizens who have no access to medical care and many die from their natural diseases everyday.

They're already being fed and provided a warm place to sleep, which is already better than what a lot of people who never break a law get. If someone like Manson gets a natural disease that many normal people die from everyday maybe he can be afforded the same treatment regular people get as well and succumb to the disease? I'd much rather have my tax money go to providing care for people who don't murder people than the people who do.
 
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Christine

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FinaruDensetsu said:
I understand the concept and reasons for not having capital punishment but why do serious offenders like a serial murder have to be saved and given the best medical treatment?

There are millions of law abiding citizens who have no access to medical care and many die from their natural diseases everyday.

They're already being fed and provided a warm place to sleep, which is already better than what a lot of people who never break a law get. If someone like Manson gets a natural disease that many normal people die from everyday maybe he can be afforded the same treatment regular people get as well and succumb to the disease? I'd much rather have my tax money go to providing care for people who don't murder people than the people who do.
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When we as a society imprison a person, we assume near total control over their lives and environment. There's a corresponding responsibility attached to that action.

To put it another way, a prisoner has no alternatives. If they are not provided medical care by the state, they have no other way to get it. It's not merely an absence of assistance but an active prohibition. We don't consider the prevention of needed medical care to be an ethical or appropriate punishment.

Our apathy and lack of care for people who need care and haven't been imprisoned is shameful to the extreme, but also a separate issue from the responsibilities created by using imprisonment as a sanction.
 
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Hoo-doo

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Imagine being the doctor on call and seeing Manson, C. as your next patient and it turns out to be the actual guy.

I mean, you obviously just do your job, but man if it wouldn't feel weird.
 
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rats, was looking forward to watching him light the White House christmas tree
 
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Always the most fascinating interviews. Mostly just rambles but the way he sounds and presents it makes it very easy to understand why weaker individuals were drawn to him.
 
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parrotbeak

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I read Manson In His Own Words when I was in high school and just remember him talking about being in juvenile detention a lot and being raped by the guards.
 
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