Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik won a place on Friday to study at Oslo University from solitary confinement in prison, despite outrage at his massacre of 77 people four years ago."He meets the admission requirements. We stick to our rules and he will be admitted," Oslo University rector Ole Petter Ottersen told Reuters, saying prisoners are eligible to study as long as their academic grades are good enough.Many were appalled when Breivik, who holds far-right anti-Muslim views and has shown no remorse, applied for the three-year bachelor's course in political science. Some students now at the university survived his attacks, while others had friends or relatives killed."I realise there are many feelings involved here. He tried to demolish the system. We have to stay faithful to it," Ottersen said. The course includes study of democracy, human rights and respect for minorities.Breivik, now 36, planted a bomb on July 22, 2011 in central Oslo that killed eight people and destroyed the government headquarters. He then travelled to an island where the then-ruling Labour Party was holding a summer camp and shot dead 69 people, many of them teenagers.Under the terms of his sentence, Breivik is held in solitary confinement and will be unable to attend lectures or seminars. All his work will go via prison staff, with no direct contact with professors."His study will be carried out exclusively in his own cell," Ottersen said. Breivik has access to books but not the Internet.Norway will open a "July 22 Centre" next week in Oslo with information and exhibits about the attacks. Some relatives and survivors fear it risks becoming a Breivik "hall of fame"
What, would you rather they treat him like a slave and have him to manual labor for life?It's called basic human decency.
Quote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:33:34 PMWhat, would you rather they treat him like a slave and have him to manual labor for life?It's called basic human decency.Sorry, but after he bombs innocent people, and then goes to a Summer Camp to murder dozens more, he doesn't deserve any human decency or sympathy. He's even full of glee after murdering all those people.
Max has the right idea. Executing him or keeping him in deplorable conditions would just make us as bad as him.
Quote from: Esoteric on July 17, 2015, 09:52:55 PMMax has the right idea. Executing him or keeping him in deplorable conditions would just make us as bad as him.Bullshit. Justice being served is never bad, plus executing one man is nowhere near the damage he caused. Don't be so foolish and sentimental.
This is good.
a jail cell nicer than most apartments.
Quote from: Meta Cognition on July 18, 2015, 06:20:45 AMQuote from: challengerX on July 18, 2015, 06:16:41 AMa jail cell nicer than most apartments.That's really not uncommon for Norwegian prisons.And it's a bad thing. When you can live better in a prison cell than as a poor person, there's something severely wrong.
Quote from: challengerX on July 18, 2015, 06:16:41 AMa jail cell nicer than most apartments.That's really not uncommon for Norwegian prisons.
I'd love to see what all you would say if it was some black gangster. "HE'S A CAREER CRIMINAL THERE'S NO REFORMING HIM HE DESERVES TO BE IN A HELLHOLE"Meanwhile a mass murderer is studying in university in a jail cell nicer than most apartments.
Is there really any point to providing him with these resources? He's not going to reform or anything.
Quote from: SHAWN BEEN on July 18, 2015, 01:47:51 AMQuote from: Esoteric on July 17, 2015, 09:52:55 PMMax has the right idea. Executing him or keeping him in deplorable conditions would just make us as bad as him.Bullshit. Justice being served is never bad, plus executing one man is nowhere near the damage he caused. Don't be so foolish and sentimental.>calling execution justiceLolol
Quote from: Nick McIntyre on July 17, 2015, 09:35:03 PMQuote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:33:34 PMWhat, would you rather they treat him like a slave and have him to manual labor for life?It's called basic human decency.Sorry, but after he bombs innocent people, and then goes to a Summer Camp to murder dozens more, he doesn't deserve any human decency or sympathy. He's even full of glee after murdering all those people.Ah, because stooping to his level makes us better than him.Gotcha.
Quote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:38:43 PMQuote from: Nick McIntyre on July 17, 2015, 09:35:03 PMQuote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:33:34 PMWhat, would you rather they treat him like a slave and have him to manual labor for life?It's called basic human decency.Sorry, but after he bombs innocent people, and then goes to a Summer Camp to murder dozens more, he doesn't deserve any human decency or sympathy. He's even full of glee after murdering all those people.Ah, because stooping to his level makes us better than him.Gotcha.Yeah because executing him is as terrible and evil as his murder of 77 innocent people. Those two situations are definitely comparable.
Quote from: The Lord Ruler on July 18, 2015, 12:07:03 PMQuote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:38:43 PMQuote from: Nick McIntyre on July 17, 2015, 09:35:03 PMQuote from: Mad Max on July 17, 2015, 09:33:34 PMWhat, would you rather they treat him like a slave and have him to manual labor for life?It's called basic human decency.Sorry, but after he bombs innocent people, and then goes to a Summer Camp to murder dozens more, he doesn't deserve any human decency or sympathy. He's even full of glee after murdering all those people.Ah, because stooping to his level makes us better than him.Gotcha.Yeah because executing him is as terrible and evil as his murder of 77 innocent people. Those two situations are definitely comparable.So because what you want to do is less terrible than what he did, that makes it good?
Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on July 18, 2015, 10:25:40 AMIs there really any point to providing him with these resources? He's not going to reform or anything.Breivik is a narcissistic psychopath; that sort of disorder is usually outgrown by the time an individual reaches their 50s or 60s. Norway has at least one serial killer I know of whom they released, and who is now living under a different name.
Anders Breivik to study Oslo classes from his jail cell
