02-15-2024, 02:50 AM
(02-14-2024, 10:52 PM)Nately120 Wrote: It might work. I'm just saying that public executions are one of those things that "shithole countries/societies" tended to do. A general rule of thumb when it comes to improving your own situation is to not do what those sorts of places/periods do/did. From what people say there are videos out there of people being killed and tortured and other unpleasant realities. I don't think the people who seek out that sort of thing are more well adjusted than the average bloke, but I don't know that.
I'm not saying I'm right here, I just find it a bit depressing when I hear people openly lament that more people aren't being killed in public, or dying in the street because they're "too lazy to have insurance" or starving because they're poor, or otherwise getting a fatal punishment for their perceived wrongs/failings. Brining back public executions or gibbeting or other shows of the ultimate draconian power of the government over the unruly populace just seems like a step in the wrong direction to me.
This is before we bring into the argument that half of the country right now feels like our justice system is completely biased and corrupt and framing people and faking stuff like mass shootings, so now we're going to give the government the blanket right to execute them while we all watch? Ehh, I'd be wary of wanting this sort of thing, that's all I'm saying. Between this and our insistence that our leaders are vessels of god, we're really skipping past turning the clock back to the good ol' 1950's and going right to turning things back to the dark ages. Freaky.
I generally follow that train of thought on not going back to the dark ages. But I'm out of ideas for solutions to the problem. Prisons are over crowded. And people with death penalties and life without parole sentences who are clearly guilty spending years hanging out in prison is tax money I would rather spend elsewhere and one of the issues I've always had with the justice system. So I'm willing to think outside the box. Kill two birds with one stone. Eww now there's and idea. Maybe let the people in the crowds that get shot up stone the shooter/s. Good old fashioned biblical stoning? Put it on TV. Then the next school that gets shot up we'll do a wake/pep rally/stoning and let the kids do it. Make a tiktok video of the kids going nuts taking revenge and maybe the next kid thinking about shooting up a school will think twice?
