• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know. I think we need controlled studies to find out what the actual most painful way possible to die is. How many rapists and murderers do we have? I’m sure we can spare some of those for testing purposes.

    Personally, my money is on someone being slowly fed into a wood chipper while on fire and drinking battery acid.

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      Well, they probably didn’t do it very scientifically but if they could think of it and the tools existed, someone in history is likely to have tried it as a method for killing people.

      Impaled people, for instance, could allegedly take days to die. Being slowly eaten by ants or rats sounds pretty painful too

      There’s one called “life” that is pretty cruel too. It might take anywhere from seconds to more than a hundred years for it to eventually kill you and some.people get to experience a lot of pain throughout the experience.

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        Dude I’ve had depression since I was in first grade, so you’re preaching to the choir on that last one. But no I was speaking of scientific method here.

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            Don’t feel sorry for people wanting to experiment on living humans to find the most gruesome form of death…

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              He mentions rapists and murderers. I choose to think that they don’t deserve to be given a gruesome death (or a death sentence at all for that matter) but I’d be lying if I said I have never felt that way when reading about some f-ed up stuff on the news. Maybe I’m also higher on the Hitler scale than I thought I was.

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                If you can support the death penalty for them, then you can also support the irreversible traumatization of them.

                However, if you cannot be confident enough in your justice system, just don’t do it. A wrongful conviction would have no possible restitution for death or torture.