

I don’t even think that’s the ultimate argument. Executions are final. There is nothing you can do when you find out someone wasn’t guilty after all. And that happens way too often.


I don’t even think that’s the ultimate argument. Executions are final. There is nothing you can do when you find out someone wasn’t guilty after all. And that happens way too often.


Don’t forget what I think is the most important reason for elaborate “humane” execution methods. Those ordering or tasked with the executions don’t want to think of themselves as the “bad guys”. Historically what that means has varied strongly. But in our societies we have very little official appetite for being bad or cruel in a physical manner.
And then it’s a matter of required competency. It seems to require real skill to decapitate a person with a sword cleanly. Hanging cleanly is much less simple than it seems. Killing is fairly simple. Killing in a socially acceptable manner much less so.


Erinnert mich an den Kurzfilm Slaughterbots. Sci-fi wird zunehmend (leider) Realität.


Ich finde vor allem lustig, wie die hoch-heilige Kuh “Marktwirtschaft” mal eben ausgehebelt wird, wenn sie nicht opportun ist. Aber sonst heißt es immer: können wir nicht halten, der Markt soll es richten.


Imo dürften Marken gar nicht übertragbar sein. Unternehmen oder Produktion gekauft? Herzlichen Glückwunsch, jetzt steht dein Name auf der Umpackung. Das ist ja, was eine Marke sein sollte: die Bezeichnung der Herstellerfirma. Und Tochtergesellschaften, Holdings und so ein Müll sollten egal sein. Namen des letztendlichen Eignersndrauf und gut.


Reich ME, considering how competent they run things.
I had that moment with the flash back in Captain Marvel. I believe it was a “20 years earlier” and the sound track changes to Garbage/Only happy when it rains… The sound track of my friend group in the last years of school. Damn did I feel old…