I use only my index fingers. At one point I came upon the idea that it would be better to use index and middle, and tried to switch to that style, but it just felt really uncomfortable and weird. My competence at video gaming remained the same with both styles.
@Seppli: Yes it's cheaper to break someone, but that is exactly what you are doing, BREAKING them. There is a large chance that they will never heal correctly, even with a professional attempting to fix the damage it's a tricky procedure. And you seem to have ignored the fact that it goes against the Eighth Amendment. The one that says Cruel and Unusual Punishment is illegal. If you don't know, that means you can't punish someone in a way that causes humiliation or suffering directly from the punishment.
" Taco chill out, your craziness is clouding the good point you might be making. A lot of small prison term crimes serve only to create more hardened criminals. That includes smalltime drug charges and prostitution, and putting those people in a room with rapists, gangsters and murderers. There's a fundamental problem there, but NOBODY IN THE WORLD has found a better way to run prisons. So its kind of a glass house thing. Plenty of smalltime criminals in Europe got fucked up even more going through the prison system, you just happen to have a smaller population. A small country is always going to have smaller figures, even if it has all of the same problems. At the end of the day, congresspeople know being "hard on drugs" is something that will get them votes and that will get voted through quickly. And that's why the system is how it is, that's why maximum penalties for drug use are so ridiculously disproportionate compared to, say, child molesters.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us-united-states/cri-crime Basically, drug offenses account for about 2/3 of the prison population, and if you look at the other high stats, I would guarantee a good chunk of them come from former inmates who learned new "survival traits", let's say, from their prison peers. Whoever decided it was a good idea to allow every brand of prisoner to just sit and talk shop with each other was a damn fool. Prison reeducation should come from professionals, not other inmates. "
Personally, I believe crippling offenders would be more effective. Take a violent offenders strength (severing all ligaments and such). Take a fraudulent offenders voice and finger dexterity. Castrate sexual offenders. Not permanently of course. Just for as long as fits the crime. Not take away their freedom, but their means of doing again, what they did wrong. On top of that, I'd strip them of the protection of the laws they broke. A murder on a convicted murderer isn't against the law, because the offender broke that law and is no longer protected by it. Let them face the horror and terror of the general population knowing what they did, without being 'safe and comfy' behind prison walls. Those worthy of redemption will find it in the general populus. Monsters however will perish. One way or another. The only way to survive such a situation is to ask for help. "
You know that doing all that is not only a very outdated form of "justice"(it's really akin to going back to chopping off a thieves hand), but the surgery to both safely sever ligaments, and then repair them, is likely more expensive than just imprisoning them. Also, are you aware of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors swear to? Your suggested punishment would completely violate it, and the only people left to do the surgery wouldn't be trained to do it in a way that could be fixed.
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