• HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Guillotine is almost certainly worse than hypoxia; having nerves severed is agonizing. Having almost all of them severed would be insanely painful.

    That said, what if we just didn’t kill people. That would be cool.

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      9 months ago

      I think they more mean the removal of corruption, not necessarily literally beheadings.

      At least I hope if they’re going to call the death penalty bad in principle. IMO, it’s good in principle, but completely untennable in practice in such an insanely flawed system working with just as flawed laws. I’m not sure a defensible system could exist. Not with modern humans.

      The irony of being too bad to properly purge the bad…

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      9 months ago

      If the nerves connected to the brain are severed, how can someone even know they’re in pain? (Also, they die immediately.)

      FYI, they were making a joke about complacent, exploitative rich people, e.g. the French Revolution.