Increases revenue for governmental use with arena tickets and bets as well as saves money that would have been used to kill them with chemicals. They are already gonna be killed anyways at least let them go out with honor if they so choose
That's not a prize I'd wanna win. I'd want the prize to be fighting again and living until you lose. Death is superior to rotting in a prison cell with no chance of leaving.
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· 5 years ago
The only choice you have, is to die.
Damn, that sounds Badass.
Okay, but what happens to the winner? Do they just keep fighting until they're killed? That doesn't seem like much of a prize, but I don't see how fighting for their freedom would be even a little acceptable.
Also weaponry would be an issue. Even banned, they often find ways to create makeshift ones, and if they're NOT banned considering how some of these people kill their victims, handing them weapons seems like a bad idea. The other side is, killing someone with your bare fists isn't necessarily quick. It certainly CAN be, but it can also be brutally, agonizingly slow. And not all, or even most death row inmates likely physically really have what it takes to even begin to compete anyway, even if they want to.
There's also the issue that now family members will potentially have the added trauma of watching the person they care about being bludgeoned to death in an arena for sport. Maybe it's the inmate's choice, but that's not necessarily going to be something young kids would
Understand, and even relatives that DO, it's not going to be easy to deal with. Especially when video footage starts getting leaked/uploaded, and then yet another person's death gets turned into a meme. Again, I'm aware it's an inmate, but I'm talking about the family, who may have done absolutely nothing wrong the entire time. I don't know much about it, but I was under the impression the reason we did away with the electric chair in most places, and switched to lethal injection was at least partially because of the inhumanity involved in the former option.
Then there's the issue of inmates being blackmailed, threatened, or forced to fight, which I could see cropping up in certain situations.
I'm not saying it's an impossible thing, and I'm sure there would be pros. But I don't see it working overall
I already said above the prize would be fighting another day. That's infinitely better than rotting in a cell for life or dying quietly in a chair.
Yes you give them weapons. Traditional gladiator weapons just minus a few that would be a bit boring 1v1. You'd also add in bits to the weapons that set off if they get taken past the arena prep area and send a single to the inmates shackle bits (the steel clamps without the chains between) to immobilize the inmate if they try to take the weapon out.
Also the electric chair being taken out due to inhumanity is irrelevant in a consenting situation as they are actively choosing and saying this is a better option in their eyes than dead by injection.
With the whole families thing.
It wouldn't be all that hard to ban recording devices and require both person searches and bag/etc searches as well as body scanners before entering the arena seating. That would mitigate recording if the fights down to basically nothing which means basically no leaks that the family could see.It could also be put out there that belief in Norse religious stuff isn't actually all that uncommon and this could allow a moderately large amount of people to get the death they want even without considering that fact.
I wasn't addressing YOU specifically, tbh, just the situation overall. Still, thanks for taking the time to answer.
And I mean, people have smuggled recording devices into places before. I guarantee it would not be as difficult/unlikely as you make it out to be. How it effects the families is not irrelevant, but if you see it that way, fair enough.
I don't see a weapon situation working out well at all for anyone involved, but interesting thoughts on it at any rate.
I don't think I'm for this, but its an interesting subject
yeah.... especially with a "champion" who seems to be invulnerable. Everyone he goes up against just throwing the fight for the safety of a loved one/ones...
then just bet on the champion and profit... or short it and rig that once it's not worth it.
Probably bcz that would become a market and someone would try to influence a judge to put ppl on deathrow instead of life in prison on every such scenario..
Gladiators didn't really fight to the death though. Gladiators were investments. They were trained, fed, and housed. A trainer would put a shot ton of money on one dude so to have them die is literally a stupid decision. Sometimes accidents happen and some would get killed, but more often than not, everyone left alive
The historical lethality of roman gladiators isn't the question here tho. Also there are instances of arena death combat in other cultures so the name could be changed to one of those to suite people that wanna make it a historical matter
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I just want a death course.
A la Deadman Wonderland(Look it up, its pretty fucking brutal).
This isn't technically a punishment tho. It's alternative choice made by the inmate. It isn't something the government would be punishing with rather than allowing the inmates to have one more option on how they die. It's not an uncommon ideal that dying by injection or chair or rotting in a cell to death is an honorless death and people holding that ideal would be part of the people choosing this option.
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Pretty sure it'd still count as such though because i'm pretty sure that the government must give death row inmates life saving care even if the person wishes to die from their disease or other natural causes.
It's a replacement for getting executed so they would just fight for a high score kill count wise and get their final meal some time before every match in case they die.
Damn, that sounds Badass.
Also weaponry would be an issue. Even banned, they often find ways to create makeshift ones, and if they're NOT banned considering how some of these people kill their victims, handing them weapons seems like a bad idea. The other side is, killing someone with your bare fists isn't necessarily quick. It certainly CAN be, but it can also be brutally, agonizingly slow. And not all, or even most death row inmates likely physically really have what it takes to even begin to compete anyway, even if they want to.
There's also the issue that now family members will potentially have the added trauma of watching the person they care about being bludgeoned to death in an arena for sport. Maybe it's the inmate's choice, but that's not necessarily going to be something young kids would
Then there's the issue of inmates being blackmailed, threatened, or forced to fight, which I could see cropping up in certain situations.
I'm not saying it's an impossible thing, and I'm sure there would be pros. But I don't see it working overall
Yes you give them weapons. Traditional gladiator weapons just minus a few that would be a bit boring 1v1. You'd also add in bits to the weapons that set off if they get taken past the arena prep area and send a single to the inmates shackle bits (the steel clamps without the chains between) to immobilize the inmate if they try to take the weapon out.
Also the electric chair being taken out due to inhumanity is irrelevant in a consenting situation as they are actively choosing and saying this is a better option in their eyes than dead by injection.
With the whole families thing.
And I mean, people have smuggled recording devices into places before. I guarantee it would not be as difficult/unlikely as you make it out to be. How it effects the families is not irrelevant, but if you see it that way, fair enough.
I don't see a weapon situation working out well at all for anyone involved, but interesting thoughts on it at any rate.
I don't think I'm for this, but its an interesting subject
then just bet on the champion and profit... or short it and rig that once it's not worth it.
A la Deadman Wonderland(Look it up, its pretty fucking brutal).
It would have been good itf it wasnt a twelve episode anime