Leftover Soup




	There are many lesser deaths. Being unable to move is a form of death. For what is life but motion? Being unable to communicate is a form of death. For what is life, if not shared with others? Being unable to work is a form of death. For what is life, if not affecting the world around you? Being unable to think is a form of death. For what is yadda yadda yadda, you get the idea. Prison is definitely death. To be removed from society, to no longer be able to make choices... I've always mentally thought of a prison sentence as being the same thing as dying and going to Hell. If I'm ever incarcerated, I think the first thing I'd do is go looking for a length of rope and a sturdy overhead pipe. The game's already over, why bother running out the clock? Might as well save the taxpayers some money.

0696------------------------------------- (Thursday afternoon, INT: Capsaicin Lounge kitchen) ChA: You don't know the first goddamn thing about law and order. JH: I dunno, I'd say I've had a fair amount of relevant experience. ChA: I was saying that you had to kill your suspect because you weren't involving the police. The police would have options other than killing him. -------------- JH: What, like sending him to jail? ChA: Prison. Yes. JH: And how exactly is that functionally different from killing him? ChA: Well, he doesn't die, for one thing. -------------- JH: Doesn't he? Locking you up in a metal box where you get shivved and beaten and raped in the showers... and then if and when you get out, how exactly do you reintegrate back into the world of the living? I know we don't hire ex-cons here, and from what I understand, that's pretty standard. -------------- ChA: Having difficulty getting a bullshit entry-level restaurant job is not the same thing as being a corpse. JH: Well, it would appear we have different definitions about what being alive is.