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The only difference between a humane and an inhumane death, is whether or not it leaves a mess. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001 to c/showerthoughts
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A person can be killed instantly through many different means.

As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.

If you instantly destroy a person's entire brain then they died without pain.

Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone's entire brain are considered inhumane.

If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The key metric for 'human' actions is to avoid needless suffering. Livestock processed humanly is not panicked, not given a slow painful death, it should be quick, clean, and without pain.

Living conditions are human if they don't create needless suffering, i.e. animals living in a open farm are human, animals living their lives in changes is inhumane.

I think the golden rule applies, treat others how you would like to be treated, is basically being humane.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I think the golden rule applies, treat others how you would like to be treated, is basically being humane.

What if you are a masochist?