Who is your favorite scientist? Pick from the choices I have presented here. If you have someone else you like or I did not add you can choose them.
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Anyways, it would have to be Isaac Newton. That guy had revolutionary ideas in a multitude of topics.
Him for sure.
But really, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson.
All jokes aside, those are all good choices and they are all brilliant in their own way, but I would have to say Galileo Galilei :)
He used that among other devious methods to try and ruin his rivals reputation. He succeeded and tesla lost credit for many of his inventions. As far as I know tesla was never guilty of foul play against him.
That, in my opinion qualifies thomas edisson as a bastard :-)
Apart from that it does not, as you said, have many uses.
My fear is that it would be used as an excuse to torture and kill possibly innocent citizens (after all, many great people such as nelson mandela were considered criminals at the time).
That said it I bet it would drastically lower violent crime rates. Even so, nowadays tissue cultures can be grown in a petri dish to perform tests on. The sole reason animal testing continues to exist is laziness.
Repeated offenders for crimes such as rape or murder could perhaps be used as test subjects or other useful but deadly tasks. Just killing them painlessly seems redundant and not enough of a deterrent to people who think they can do whatever they want because they don't care about death. Not even a suicidal person could possibly not mind being a test subject.
Supposing a depressed person killed for an understandable reason: say they were depressed as a result of somebody oppressing them, and they murdered that person. In my opinion they should not be charged, but if their anger drove them to kill innocent civilians they should be considered guilty. The recent cinema shooting springs to mind.
Likewise, if someone was found to be mentally incapable of controlling their actions, they should not be penalised but receive care.
I'll say Dmitri Mendeleev is my favourite. So much of chemistry would be impossible without him.
Seriously though, either Carl Sagan, Ada Lovelace, or Nikola Tesla at the moment.
I'm partial to Ben Franklin.
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