Post #2117570
2026-04-24 20:11 UTC
> I don’t know, we’re already well down that path already
I'm not claiming the technology doesn't exist, I'm saying that I don't want the society I live in to fund its expansion and employment by the state against its citizens. Once deployed, it would be trivially easy to employ against not only "the convicted" but any other group the state wanted killed. Even proponents of state level death penalty probably don't want that.
>if you agree with the death penalty I personally do not.
You and I agree on this. I *might* be onboard with it if we have a way of enforcing it without ever executing an innocent person, and also equal enforcement across groups. The historical data doesn't like. The death penatly is disproportionately applied to people of color, so the system is broken. This means we cannot rightfully have a state level death penalty.
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@leoj@piefed.social 2026-04-24 20:20
ah, the way you said "encourage" led me to believe you meant that it was not available, and that discussion of which would encourage its development further. The slippery slope debate about its use elsewhere is valid, but I think it is also valid to discuss it as an alternative when discussing viable death penalty executioners, and it is part of my reasoning for why the death penalty is wrong across the board. If you think this sort of technology won't be deployed the moment a serious civil uprising occurs, well then I envy you because I would love to live under that belief - but I don't.