Not super relevant, but I legit saw a TV commercial the other day for some TV show with one of these women who claim to be psychic in it, and in the preview she's talking to some other girl and telling her she's speaking with a deceased loved one.
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The "psychic" says: "and she's telling me... you like.. Music."
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The girl she was talking to almost had a break down, crying and nodding and saying "yes, yes," over and over like this was some huge revelation and not like a generic statement that would apply to 99.8% of the human population
The way I see it is everyone dies in some cases some people need to die sooner then there actual expiration date! Life is not some special thing that people would like you to believe but it’s an actual nuance! Maybe the very first life was special but after the 100th million soul it loses its ability to be special and just ends up just being another soul that comes and go! Like let’s say the very first car had been something special to see but after a 100 thousand cars it’s just another car nothing special!
I mean, I'm sure they were happy, but murder isn't something to celebrate. Humans have an intrinsic right to life even if they are horrible people. I would protest Hitler's execution if he hadn't gone Japanese... and if I were alive.
And yes, that would mean I'd be the superhero who'd tell the badguy to stay in prison and definitely don't escape and do evil things. Like Batman but with less sexual tension with a more motherly feeling. I'm sure Bruce would have had a motherly feeling, but his mom didn't get the chance to teach him that...
Everyone has a right to live. If you can justify the murder of killing one person due to the potential threat they have in the future, then that same justification can be used to kill everyone because they pose a potential risk. Killing people is a barbaric practice that is best left in ancient times.
We're edging toward the plotline of Psycho Pass here on that last comment. But either way, Hitler wasn't going to be put to death because of his "potential" to do more harm in the future, he was going to be put to death to hold him accountable for what he'd done in the EXTREMELY recent past. Like it or not, fear of revenge/retribution is one of the main ways humans have been able to develop as a functioning society.
Example that comes to mind is I remember seeing a documentary on one of the big bike gangs out there. I can't remember exactly what was going on, but iirc the gang was commiting crimes (as gangs tend the police we getting involved, and the gang was injuring or killing the cops. Legally the cops didn't have enough to prosecute and they're expected not to sink to the criminals' levels. And they didn't want to. But in the meantime cops were dying. People were losing their loved ones, families were being destroyed.
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The chief of police approached the leader of the gang and told him he needed to get his men in line.
The gang leader said: "well I can't control what my guys do when I'm not around."
The chief looked right at him and said "Neither can I."
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The implication being he couldn't guarantee anymore "good" behaviour from the cops side of things. If the gang leader wasn't going to keep his men in line, the cops would respond in kind and do what they needed to to survive.
They never ended up needing to respond at all because shortly after that the gang's violence toward the cops de-escalated to a tolerable degree.
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Many notorious criminals end up "jailed," and live like kings; jail isn't a threat to them, it's a minor inconvenience. Some escape, or have riots and rallies held-- both for and against them.
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Whether putting him to death is the "right" thing, I don't know. But there has to be accountability. There has to be some semblance of justic. For some victims, his death is the only way they'd ever have been able to find any amount of peace. If it had been me or my own family, I can almost guarantee I'd have wanted to see him die.
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Perhaps we're all simply fortunate he made it easy in this regard
Some would argue turning people into lampshades is also barbaric. I'd say this is why we have trials and such, but iirc you don't think much of the justice system, so idk where that leaves us. We don't let victims take retribution blindly (which I guarantee would be a lot less merciful than most execution practises), so there is that at least
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The "psychic" says: "and she's telling me... you like.. Music."
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The girl she was talking to almost had a break down, crying and nodding and saying "yes, yes," over and over like this was some huge revelation and not like a generic statement that would apply to 99.8% of the human population
And yes, that would mean I'd be the superhero who'd tell the badguy to stay in prison and definitely don't escape and do evil things. Like Batman but with less sexual tension with a more motherly feeling. I'm sure Bruce would have had a motherly feeling, but his mom didn't get the chance to teach him that...
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The chief of police approached the leader of the gang and told him he needed to get his men in line.
The gang leader said: "well I can't control what my guys do when I'm not around."
The chief looked right at him and said "Neither can I."
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The implication being he couldn't guarantee anymore "good" behaviour from the cops side of things. If the gang leader wasn't going to keep his men in line, the cops would respond in kind and do what they needed to to survive.
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Many notorious criminals end up "jailed," and live like kings; jail isn't a threat to them, it's a minor inconvenience. Some escape, or have riots and rallies held-- both for and against them.
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Whether putting him to death is the "right" thing, I don't know. But there has to be accountability. There has to be some semblance of justic. For some victims, his death is the only way they'd ever have been able to find any amount of peace. If it had been me or my own family, I can almost guarantee I'd have wanted to see him die.
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Perhaps we're all simply fortunate he made it easy in this regard