So the punishment is a very long nap?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Demolition Man
jpowers4667 — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 05:32 PM)
I've seen this film countless times since I was a kid, and I always thought it was somewhat ridiculous to consider serving one's sentence while in suspended animation to be a pointless punishment.
Assuming one was leaving behind loved ones (which they would rarely see from prison anyway), who cares? So they are flash-frozen and awoken at the time of their parole hearingit's all the same to them. From a prisoner's perspective, they're waking up seconds later. So the whole point of serving time is lost because they didn't actually have to age and suffer through the years.
I could also get into the financial absurdity that is keeping prisoners frozen when their crimes possibly warranted execution, but that's another topic -
strntz — 9 years ago(January 22, 2017 07:03 AM)
From a prisoner's perspective, they're waking up seconds later.
The above poster mentioned Sparton being awake the whole time. If not, he was at least partially aware as he told the warden about knowing about his wife crying at his ice cube. In any case, it just wasn't being turned into a consicle, they also were being reprogrammed.
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