The Pentagon said Thursday it will livestream the military’s first firing squad execution in decades, allowing the public to watch as the man who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood is put to death.
I was already “uncomfortable” with executions, they were already obvious to me, I’m quite familiar with the practice and this doesn’t particularly make me any more uncomfortable than I already was. How I feel as an individual, and the means available to me, have not translated into policy changes. That’s why we are discussing the broader, societal effects. Whether or not people who don’t already care will start to care, whether the effect will be positive or negative. And that brings us back to the actual point, that unless you can provide some sort of evidence, your idea that it will have a positive effect is just conjecture, that doesn’t really fit with the evidence we do have.
The correct action is to stop executions, not to force them back behind the curtains.
No shit.
When I raised the possibility of them being merely forced back behind the curtains, I was discussing a possibility of what may happen, not what should happen. What the “correct” answer is isn’t relevant to that in any way, because what is “correct” has no bearing on what is or will be. You keep losing track of the point.
I was already “uncomfortable” with executions, they were already obvious to me, I’m quite familiar with the practice and this doesn’t particularly make me any more uncomfortable than I already was. How I feel as an individual, and the means available to me, have not translated into policy changes. That’s why we are discussing the broader, societal effects. Whether or not people who don’t already care will start to care, whether the effect will be positive or negative. And that brings us back to the actual point, that unless you can provide some sort of evidence, your idea that it will have a positive effect is just conjecture, that doesn’t really fit with the evidence we do have.
No shit.
When I raised the possibility of them being merely forced back behind the curtains, I was discussing a possibility of what may happen, not what should happen. What the “correct” answer is isn’t relevant to that in any way, because what is “correct” has no bearing on what is or will be. You keep losing track of the point.