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What's the wildest thing, good or bad, you heard from a teacher or professor? (hexbear.net)

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I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.

The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.

That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn't know why I felt that way.

Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.

Anyway, that's just one from me. What about the rest of you?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of my profs said he worked for an NGO to spread democracy in Paraguay. He was also incredibly well travelled and knows 4-5 languages. To this day I think he’s a fed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah that all tracks. Spreading democracy in another country is a huge tell.