If you evacuate your bowels when you die, then no method of death is not messy.
Also was this reposted or did the comments just get nuked? π€
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I originally made this post on showerthoughts but it didn't receive positive attention.
I know you're pretty active so you might've seen it there.
I reposted it here since it seemed controversial which seems fitting for this community.
What about killing people is always inhumane?
Humans will die regardless of that ideology. They will die painfully and slowly or painlessly and quickly.
But killing someone as quickly as possible, regardless of how "horrific" is more "humane" than killing them slowly, or in a way that causes unnecessary pain.
I definitely see why you would post this to unpopular. I see why humane an inhimne would be so hard to define.
It's inhumane for a solider to surrender in a fight and be starved or tortured to death in a prison camp.
It's humane for a late stage cancer patient to be given a set of drugs to allow them to die without pain.
The middle ground is where it gets real blurry. Hopefully humanity progresses enough to straighten out that middle ground and ideally eliminate it all together.
The mess can be mitigated if you're selective about where it's done.
I don't think there's a difference in regard to the humane value, whether you shoot someone in a lab vs hanging over a bridge railing.
Does it count as painless (a.k.a instant death) if I get drugs that disable my nerve system and some sadist starts attempting to kill by torture?
Inhumane is when someone does it to you purposefully, it has little to do with the pain factor.
Losing your head in a car accident is not inhumane, losing your head as the death penalty is.