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I think that the "how" of a death penalty is pretty important. For some other war criminal, I would wish for something like "death by acid". But for me, I'm pretty sure that I'll be sentenced to "death by old age" like so many others before me.
Why? What would you gain?
Do I need a reason to wish a horrible end upon someone? especially to a fellow war criminal?
Yeah, you do actually. I think if you're spending your time thinking about the myriad ways you can horribly kill someone instead of thinking about how to unfuck what they've done then your time isn't being spent valuably.
I'm not arguing that there aren't people who should be punished with death. I can think of plenty. Why waste time making it a spectacle? Are we just going back to being Romans?
This kind of thinking is rotten and pointless. You don't make a spectacle out of killing cancer, you just kill it as quickly as possible before it can do more damage. I don't care how it's done.
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Ah, you were serious? This is the shitty ask lemmy community, so I assumed that no one would take things posted here seriously.Of course, in reality, I don't wish acid upon others. Though I'm a bit unsure about my feelings on capital punishment, I think that if carried out, it should be as painless & private as possible. I also think that if used as punishnent, the minimum required offence for capital punishment should be very high, even higher than a few murders.
What do you mean "back to being Romans"? Cruel & unusual executions have been carried out across the ages, even in modern times. Instead of looking at the past, when humanity's limits were low, look at the future, the death penalties of tomorrow!
For example, why hang someone or kill them with a thousand cuts, when you could instead submerge them in acid or infect them with a flesh-eating bacteria? Think of the possibilities!