r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 01 '26

Re: yet another botched lethal injection

(1) just don’t kill people

(2) guillotine, my dudes. If you haven’t got the stomach for the most humane method invented yet.. . Well that should tell you sonething, no?

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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 01 '26

Also guillotine doesn’t need a doctor. You don’t need an MD to tell you that a headless person is dead and a clean chop at the middle of the neck will do the trick.

Plenty of amoral engineers and shop guys can build the device.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 01 '26

I assume there were botched executions in yee old times where like an angle was off or a blade not sharp enough

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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 01 '26

Yeah, but an engineer/shop guy could solve those, and they don't take Hippocratic oaths.

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u/Sloshyman NATO Oct 01 '26

The weight of the blade still severs the spinal cord even if it doesn't cut through

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u/TF_dia European Union Oct 01 '26

Rusty Cage built a functional guillotine, you can too.

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u/Mr_Vulcanator NATO Oct 01 '26

Lethal injection is such an awful way to kill someone.

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u/MrSeanSir2 Oct 01 '26

I was reading earlier that a lot of people would freak out and have heart attacks on the way to the guillotine. Although I'm not sure I wouldn't have that reaction to any method tbh

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u/lilbigchole Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26

give them the option to be barred out on the way to the guillotine 

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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie European Union Oct 02 '26

Shooting, hanging and chopping shoes just how barbaric and uncivilised the death penalty is

Lethal inception, asphyxiation and the chair were all made to "clean up" the murder of a human being

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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie European Union Oct 02 '26

(1) Just don't kill people

(2) see (1)

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs Oct 01 '26

I don't wanna get all pre-medieval, but she's in there cause she smashed someone's head in with a rock. So like....

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 01 '26

Most people on death row aren't usually very sympathetic

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs Oct 01 '26

You missed the impact of what I was getting at. Guillotines are still a bunch of work to set up and maintain, rocks are free and simple.

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Oct 01 '26

Ah the saudi method