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[–] elscallr 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That visceral reaction is exactly why victims or their families can't have input. Of course you'd want them to be punished, of course you'd want it to be cruel and unusual.

While I agree the State shouldn't kill, if someone decided not to spend those millions of dollars and instead took these bastards behind the jail and put a $0.15 bullet in each of their skulls I wouldn't be angry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You say that now, but what about death penalties in Sudan? Iran? China? Are western executions more moral? What is the purpose? Revenge? Deterrence? The death penalty in the real world disproportionally affects minority and disadvantaged populations. It is not a deterrent to crime, and there is truly no humane way to end a person's life. What of the executioner's psyche? What of the innocent family of the condemned? There are so many terrible consequences.

As tired and trite as it is, "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" applies and is true. The death penalty only continues the cycle of violence.

edit: I missed your point 😅 I still can't condone violence in any capacity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This would be so much easier if someone could write their names in a notebook, and somehow kill them of a heart attack as a result of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add a dude eating chips, another dude eating a cupcake, pad it out with 11 hours of nothing at all happening and you've got a hit on your hands somehow

[–] PickTheStick 5 points 1 year ago

To be fair, he ate chips with a neat soundtrack and flashy cuts. Whooooah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, in political theory the entire conceptual basis of the state is that the state is the has the sole monopoly on violence. That’s it, that’s what the state is. It is the sole purveyor of social norms and order by using violence as a tool of enforcement.

[–] aesthelete 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know, in political theory the entire conceptual basis of the state is that the state is the has the sole monopoly on violence.

No it isn't. What fucking theory are you reading to come up with this bullshit?