Age is just a number

Only 77? Dude's young enough to serve two terms as president.
- He was already a convicted felon, so he’s got the credentials to be a GOP candidate.
  
  To be fair to the GOP, he wasn't a convicted felon when he became the candidate. They're just having to pivot into why the alleged party of law and order is continuing to support a convicted felon.
- 2? Rookie numbers.

Damn.
Albert Flick, 77, spent 25 years in jail from 1979 to 2004 for the brutal murder of his wife, the New York Post reports. Around six years later he was sentenced to further time behind bars for the assault of another woman.
According to the New York Post, the 77-year-old became obsessed with his victim and when she decided to move away he killed her, stabbing her 11 times.
Article is 2019.
https://startsat60.com/media/news/albert-flick-murders-woman-after-judge-claimed-too-old-to-be-dangerous
- I'm a little disappointed he didn't just get offended at the idea he wasn't dangerous anymore
- Sounds like he has abandonment issues. Violent, murderous abandonment issues.

Yeah, some people are genuinely natural born killers. I was watching a documentary by Morgan Freeman (yes, god himself) on religion and the problem of evil. He interviewed a murderer who is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. And the killer knows he did wrong but just doesn't feel bad about it at all. CT scan of his brain showed that part of the brain linked to empathy is not active on him. So yes, unfortunately some people are just evil.
- Not having empathy isn't enough to be evil. Just like having empathy isn't enough to be good. You need ideology.
  For example, the guy who lacks empathy could use basic libertarian or anarchist ideology for why we shouldn't hurt people using logic instead of empathy.
  Another example would be if you use fascist ideology you can turn empathy into a weapon for evil. The us vs them ideology requires empathy. The idea is that they are going to hurt the people you love just by existing is what dehumanizes them enough for a normal person to attack them.
  
  Exactly, I have a loved one who struggles with empathy, but she believes in justice and she has logic and so she winds up with extremely pro social beliefs and behavior. She just can be a bit rough around the edges sometimes when she thinks you’re not making sense
  
  You need ideology
  No; compassion and naive morality is usually sufficient. A well-developed ethical system is good, and typically out-performs the former, but avoiding being outright evil without outside influence is easy.
  
  Excellent point.
  
  That's one way to see it. Another is that empathy is all that's needed for good, but ideology can be used to manipulate people such that their empathy for a certain group is suppressed.
  
  Great, now I don't know if I can feel empathy. Better take a 2 min facebook quiz to find out.
  
  Does us vs them really require empathy? I always saw it as a lack of empathy - the empathy in tribalism seems to end at the tribe
- i think religious indoctrination plays a part too,I find it quite revealing when someone asks an atheist: "well if hell doesnt exist why dont you just go around killing and raping whoever you want?"
  Like bruh, because I am not a monster.
- These people are called "sociopaths". Most sociopaths aren't killers, though. They will often go into a field where their lack of empathy is rewarded, such as business management.
- Beware the (only) highly empathetic too, while you're at it.
  Get the right (wrong) combination and you have:
  Someone who can understand and read the changes they are engendering in others, adjust manipulation in real time, feel terrible about it, but be able to justify it to themselves as improving the lot of others if they genuinely lack the intelligence to comprehend the whole "you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink" adage.
  Self-awareness is tragically never a guarantee; much less using it to take responsibility for shortcomings.
- Was it Why Does Evil Exist??
- Pseudoscience bullshit. Might as well talk phrenology or body language science.
  
  Found the evil one.
  
  Why do you believe that?

So, two things:
Did the people who decide age doesn't matter never experience "old man strength"? If you haven't, go shake the hand of some gnarly old guy, bonus points if he does his own gardening. When you pry your fingers from that stone-like grip, let us know.
Pointy things don't need strength, they often only need a target. Also: Grandma's Boomstick, just saying.
Look, the point I'm trying to make is that these people are idiots. Even raisin face McPalpatine came back after he skydived through an electric funnel. Lessons people, lessons!
- Even raisin face McPalpatine came back after he skydived through an electric funnel.
  Somehow

But what about using a gun to kill someone?
- Worst part is the judge acknowledged that he wasn’t going to age out of wanting to kill, merely the ability to. But like you said, guns are pretty easy to use even if you’re old.
  Such an unusual “oversight”
- The gun was too old obviously
- Poison works pretty well for the elderly too, at least according to all the murder mysteries I've seen on the BBC.

I think this is an excellent indicator of why the current prison system needs to change
- What are you suggesting, more death penalties or eternal sentences?
  
  Look at countries where it works better. Hint : both your proposals are wrong.