Jon's argument for a bullet to the head.

So, in the wake of the mass murders in Norway I'd like to make a comment.


If someone shoots 68 people dead at a youth camp, confesses to doing so, and appears to have no regret whatsoever, that person no longer deserves the benefit of any resource this planet has to offer, including life.  I strongly believe in the judicial process but if you kill innocent youths the world has a better use for the money, food and water that is needed to keep you alive.  The most efficient thing to do is to remove that person from the earth and forget they ever existed.  Give them no news coverage that may further their political cause.  Just take them into the street and put a bullet in their head because they don't deserve the life God gave them and they don't deserve to take up any more room or resources of this planet.

Cost of putting a bullet in his head without a trial (remember he fully admitted to the crime and there were plenty of witnesses) = $2
Cost of keeping him alive in a life imprisonment sentence:
71,248 lbs of food equivalent to about two 18-wheelers packed full of canned food.
512.4 metric tons of CO2
1,416,054 gallons of fresh water (about the amount of water that 3 story water tower holds.)
$750,000 - Average cost of life imprisonment in the U.S. (similar in Norway I expect)

Personally, I'd take the $2 to buy a bullet and then bring the food, water, money and fresh air to Somalia where the average GDP is $600 per year and school children with a lot of potential and no plans on murdering people are starving to death and drinking rancid water.

Finally, I really wish I could shake the hand of the Navy Seal who chose to put a bullet in Bin Laden's head rather than take him alive and bring him to an extremely lengthy and costly trial.  Normally I don't thing two wrongs make a right and I don't believe in killing but in extreme instances like these I'd rather see the food, money and resources go to help those in need in the world rather than news coverage, publicity, and expensive trials for people who don't deserve them.

And if you still think killing is no solution to killing (wrong for a wrong), wouldn't you at least concede that using the money, food, and fresh water (what he would consume in his life in jail) to feed hundreds of starving children would turn that latter wrong into a right?  I do.

And how would someone get all that water and food to Somalia?  Take some of that $750,000 saved by not having a trial and use that to ship the stuff, and then take the rest to build a solar powered school or library and a few fresh water pumping stations...

Let's think of it another way... Here are the detailed calculations..
Anders Breivik is 32 years old... 

Imagine 512 of these... that's how much
CO2 Breivik will emit

Average life expectancy in Norway 80.8 Years Old.
Average Food Consumption in Norway 3,460 Kcal per day and the USDA estimates the average person here eats 4.7 lbs per day.  I'll even decrease this to 4lbs/day for Norway to be conservative.

Imagine 2 of these full of canned food

4lbs/day x 365 days/yr x 48.8 years left of Anders Breivik's life = 71,248 lbs of food, equivalent to about two 18-wheelers packed full of canned food.  Average Carbon Dioxide footprint per capita in Norway (2008) 10.5 metric tons x 48.8 years = 512.4 metric tons of CO2.  Average water use per day per person in Norway (2006) = 301 Liters or 79.5 gallons.

1.5 Million gallons of freshwater

79.5 gallons x 365 x 48.8 years left of Anders Breivik's life = 1,416,054 gallons of fresh water (about the amount of water that 3 story water tower in the photo holds.  The cost of life imprisonment in the U.S. is $750,000 which is probably similar to that in Norway I would assume.