While i
loathe the idea of being dragged into further exploring this...topic, I cant bring myself to stay silent at arguments
this mind-boggingly inane and absurd.
If doing this to one person avoids killing a hundred or a thousand or ten thousand others by way of example, there are definitely moral systems that consider this position the high ground. Most of the practical ones I'd say, even, however distasteful you may find them. Law enforcement has never been about rainbows and butterflies.
First sentence: Ok, to begin with? How does that even make sense in this context? It implies that capital punishment
is not, in fact, an effective deterrent - unlike the invasive body procedure, rape and perpetual imprisonment you advocated - since your argument clearly excludes the notion that the threat of death is enough to prevent...whatever figurative and unspecified situation avoids killing others by way of example. In your scenario everyone is all:
"pff...death sentence? How droll. Lets keep going, lads!". That is exactly how absurd your pro-rape/incarceration/invasive procedure argument sounds.
Regarding your statement about moral systems that consider this to hold a high ground and it being practical, if distateful...well, thats a fact. One historically applied by tyrants and dictators as justification for what they do. Thats not a point against the validity of this statement - just pointing out its admiteddly less than moral origin - which was the main point of...whatever this is. Incidentally, cullings, purges and executions served them just
fine in cowing the "thousands of others, by way of example."
Lastly your comment about law enforcement...i dont know how it applies to the situation between the dragon and balthorne, so Im going to assume it was a generalistic platitude. But the part about it never being about rainbows and butterflies - law enforcement is also about not being overly cruel, about demonstrating that the dignity of the criminal - any criminal - deserves to be preserved, by simply delivering the death sentence without undue humiliation or agony.
THAT is an actual moral highground.
To add to this, the guillotine was originally developed as a more humane way to end the condemned's life.
Ignace Guillotin proposed that the government adopt a gentler method of execution. Although he was personally opposed to capital punishment, Guillotin argued that decapitation by a lightning-quick machine would be more humane and egalitarian.
Yes,
"Law enforcement has never been about rainbows and butterflies." It was never about pushing for stuff like rape and gender mutilation as a more morally superior or effective deterrent either. Im stumped that this even had to be said...
your 'point' only ever existed in your head until the above message.
Not reading kinkshaming into that would be extending you not a branch, not even a log, but a multi-mile bridge.
You don't want to be misinterpreted, don't make vague remarks.
True. Re-reading the comments in sequence, I can see i wasnt nearly clear enough in expressing myself the way i meant to.
Thats on me.