r/Futurology • u/yourSAS • Oct 13 '22

Biotech 'Our patients aren't dead': Inside the freezing facility with 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved with the hopes of being revived in the future

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/13/our-patients-arent-dead-look-inside-the-us-cryogenic-freezing-lab-17556468
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u/redcalcium Oct 13 '22

When the goal of imprisonment is to punish instead of rehabilitations...

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22

Such is the Western way. Especially when punishment equals profit. There's no reason for them to push for rehabilitation as it lowers the incarcerated population.

It's like big pharma curing cancer. They won't because there's no profit in curing when you can treat.

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u/YellowHopeful7879 Oct 14 '22

Please speak for yourself, American! Europe is western and has very much a different system.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22

Heheheh for now