TEDxAustin - David R. Dow

David R. Dow asks us to consider a different story in today's death penalty debate -- one that begins several chapters before the devastating crime. A scholar of death penalty law and the founder of the Texas Innocence Network, he presents a truly inspired re-framing of what seems like an intractable problem and invites us to find a meaningful solution by actually taking a step back and making the problem bigger.

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[RagingBubuli]

Jacque Fresco realised this problem 36 years ago!

[ISMOPANAMA]

3 words... Resource Based Economy...RBE

[Mid West]

Thanks. I applaud you for recognizing the logic in this.

[CianTheMusicMan]

I applaud you for applying Jacque Fresco's way of thinking to finding a solution to society's problems.

[CyberFenix000]

Oh yeah, I do agree with you... it's just that most of the times (in America I would say ALL the time), the "reason" communism failed is either because it was evil or because it is just a "failed system" (by failed system, they mean it doesn't work while capitalism is perfect)...

[CyberFenix000]

you do know the real reason it doesn't work is because of the environment that system is put to work in... again, not defending communism (personally the closest thing to what I find acceptable is the RBE), but there is no such thing as "human nature" hence the problem with any systems is not the system itself (nor the humans themselves) but rather the interaction between humans and s systems (both act as an environment for the other)

[CyberFenix000]

YES!

[CyberFenix000]

why? (I know it did, but I it imperative for us as humans to know the reason, otherwise you might as well call it "magic")

[kbombin77]

BOOOM!! big knowledge bombs getting dropped by David R. Dow! thanks for being who you are Dave.... oh and RBE FTW ;D

[andrewranta]

absolutely in favor of an RBE .. but without even trying to debate that... this talk, especially the ending, is one of the BEST i've ever seen on TED. wow. wow. standing ovation. lets work toward a brighter future, for both the victims; and their victims.

[Mid West]

Punishment? Absolutely not. Rehabilitation yes. For example if a person goes around killing pepole and says hes never going stop cause its fun, then obviously we need to lock him up but not in a prison cell in rehabilitation centers so we can study there behavior figure out the cause and apply methods to help in the best possible way we know at the time.