So the Texas Congress has passed a new bill giving researchers permission to use the most violent, predatory, repeat sex offenders as guinea pigs for research. I am not so sure this is a good idea…
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not being sympathetic to these evil doers, I just believe that the only injection they deserve is that of the lethal kind.
Maybe I am being a bit too paranoid, or maybe I have watched to many superhero/sci-fi movies, where someone is trying to make a super soldier, they inject some bad guy with some super serum believing that there is no way on earth that anything could possibly go wrong, only to have something go drastically wrong… Said inmate now has super (insert ability here… let’s use “strength” for this example), can no longer be detained, breaks free from where ever the lab may be, and wreaks havoc on the world…
Only this isn’t sci-fi anymore… Texas is now sending hundreds of violent sex offenders to a specialized medical research facility… where they will undergo medical experimentation and testing…
Now before this bill was passed, medical testing at the human stage was done in groups where if you qualified for testing you would be paid a nice sum (Here in Canada you could get paid upwards of $3000 for a 2 week monitored stay). And it was obviously public. So the chances of evil super soldiers emerging were slim to none.
But now they have a special secured facility out of the public eye, where researchers could do whatever they like to these evil people. If any of them goes missing no one really cares, which is not necessarily a bad thing, I mean I would rather have a legitimate drug tested on worthless scum and have them suffer an ill-fated reaction than an innocent person, but testing out some unknown pathogen? I mean what’s stopping the researchers from developing something more devious than the cure for the common cold? I mean who would be a willing volunteer to be a test subject for anthrax? Who better than an unwilling pathological rapist. The possibility of corruption is endless when you are now forcing people, evil or not to partake in something nefarious, or in some cases inhumane. Now some could argue that they deserve to be tortured and have a prolonged death, but that would be inhumane and would mean that we have stooped to their level.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that this pursuit is for nefarious reasons, I only put forward that there is a possibility for such an action with this bill. Just something to think about, after all, it is the US government doing this… the ultimate power seekers…