Post #2117345

2026-04-24 17:58 UTC

If I supported capital punishment, I'd be in favor of firing squads over lethal injection. It's more honest. Shooting someone is clearly meant to kill while lethal injection dresses it up like a medical procedure. I oppose capital punishment though. The criminal justice system is not reliable enough to only punish those truly guilty of the worst crimes, it doesn't seem to be a more effective deterrent than imprisonment, and it usually ends up costing more than imprisonment for an offender's natural lifespan.

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@givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 18:18

I mean... There's completely painless ways to die. That's what the whole assisted suicide thing is in civilized countries. The "problem" is, that's completely painless, you just go to sleep. And the people who want this, want it to be a painful gruesome death. It's not justice or even removing an uncontrollable element, it's vengeance. And vengeance has to be painful. There's nothing stopping an ethical death penalty except the ethics of the people implementing

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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 18:39

Who would do the actual shooting though? For me this presents a problem. It can go two ways: - We have to employ someone that doesn't want to kill people, but does it anyway in an act of duty while suffering the psychological trauma every time they do their job. Or even worse... - We have to employ someone that does want to kill people, and we're paying them to do it.

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@thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 18:11

Heck, where we’re at now, let’s just ask ChatGPT to put red dots where each person will shoot and really spice up the thing. Turn that room into _Equilibrium._

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@MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 12:14

It's not even reliable to REACH those truly guilty of the worst crimes, it seems.

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