I see all the memes about guillotines for the rich, funny in spirit, but actually building one in the town square is not practical. They take a ton of materials, they are huge, and they do not even work reliably. Would it not make more sense to build one from metal with hydraulic pistons or something? I am not a machinist, but a more mobile unit you could wheel into a square to decapitate a few effigies seems about as effective for sending a message, and easier to remove or relocate if needed.
Because we don’t see what real, actual, guillotines do.
I accidentally saw a guillotine-execution on DuckDuckGo ( they used to be much worse than they are now, for including stuff you don’t want to see )
and … it’s kinda hard to communicate how WRONG that is, to chop a human-life to that degree of … to just-now-dead…
interesting: I can’t communicate how wrong/horrible it was, through words!
Anyways, there’s some German word, looks sorta like schedenfruede or something like that…
it means “finding enjoyment in other people’s suffering”, and old-people don’t find it funny, generally, because old-people have experienced enough diversity-of-suffering to be able to understand other-people’s perspectives…
The more one sees what people mean, the more one has to choose a self-defense-for-one’s-psyche strategy:
either sensitivity, in which case one has to avoid the coarser & worse stuff in life, systematically … XOR
de-sensitization, in which case one can joke about it, push it, even do it, because one is making one’s essence become mechanical/dead to what one’s engaging.
There’s a story of Hinduism, during the British rule of India…
Some privileged people got together to do some hunting…
1 of those was Indian, he’d used guns, before, he just hadn’t destroyed someone’s life, before…
After he shot a naturally-magnificent animal, & saw it dying as a result of his bullet, he put down his rifle, & left, never returning to that kind of culture, again…
IF sensitivity is one’s path, like making oneself into a combination microscope+telescope, spiritually, THEN … this kind of reaction becomes inevitable.
You just can’t accept what a real guillotine-execution is.
Joking-about such stuff is fine until you actually understand what it means … & then … you can’t joke about it, anymore.
Like Ukranians are unlikely to be able to joke about what Russia did to Mariupol, you know?
It’s too live-wire fresh a wound…
Having seen what a 1-to-2-second long video of a guillotine-execution looked like, I’d now say that only the evil could do them, repeatedly.
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If it’s about sending a message, then the item itself is the conveyor of the message, not an unrecognizable but more efficient substitute. The guillotine is a recognisable symbol of people rising up and seizing power from the criminal ruling class. It is a warning and a threat.
If you plan on actually executing people, then sure - optimize all you want, or just go with a bullet to the brain.
But as a symbol, the guillotine is powerful.
Let’s not encourage the troll. Sure there are certain people that it won’t hurt my feelings at all if they suddenly stop living, but at the same time I don’t agree with the death penalty, I think that just makes the executioner just as evil, if not moreso, than the person getting their head lopped off.
Death no good yo.
I’m against the death penalty because I don’t believe it should be necessary in a just world, nor should the state ever be trusted with that kind of power.
However, I see the guillotine as symbolizing the last resort in an unjust world. The worst monsters in society commit their injustices in broad daylight, and nothing will be done about it. We know that justice will never be served through the courts. So what then?
Other options are available besides death. Like, lock the 34x felon up in prison, like they should have already done…
They should have. But they won’t.
Interesting.
I say they should have locked him up, I get downvoted.
You agree, he should have been locked up, you get upvoted.
I don’t give a fuck about the actual vote count, that doesn’t matter. But the differential of votes for two people that expressed the same opinion, the fucker should have been locked up, well that dumbfounds me.
Did you miss the part where I’m pointing out the fact that it won’t happen? I’m not agreeing with you, I’m making a point.
Did I miss your username? No.
Are you here with intent on causing trouble? I’m not.
Troll is a matter of perspective and in this situation you are the troll so what were you saying again
I reject the idea of beheading, and somehow I’m the bad guy?
Well you have a nice day too, and accept that you’re cool with people getting their heads chopped off.
Less people is the answer not more people.
