(no one deserves it really)
I call bullshit. Would you claim Hitler, Stalin, or Mao didn’t deserve death.
Be careful when speaking in absolutes. The world is rarely black/white
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snoons@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I would kill people that don’t deserve it (no one deserves it really), but those people, or rather groups of people, are inherently intertwined with the maintenance and proliferation of global power structures that feed off of inequality and suffering.
Their sudden absence will have unforeseeable consequences of course, but the world will be incredibly more based without them.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Well, yeah. I believe in rehabilitive incarceration. Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military; killing them would likely be the only option (unless we had a death note >:3).
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military
Except there’s historical examples of tyrants getting out of their sentences and taking control of their military. The notable that comes to mind is Napoleon.
Not for a justice system that was developed hand-in-hand with the KKK (yes, the police really did develop that way) then I’ll agree in that condition due to the system often being used to suppress minorities. But that’s not what’s being discussed here.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
The issue is that with a death note, you’re a global power structure that feeds off inequality and suffering now.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
How would that have any connection to a Death Note? You can’t just throw that accusation out there without logic backing it up
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Getting murdered sucks. Being friends or family of someone who got murdered sucks. Using the Death Note inflicts great suffering.
As long as the Death Note user remains anonymous they can avoid any sort of accountability, while they can hold others accountable to whatever standards they wish. Using the Death Note creates inequality between the holder and everyone else.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eh, still a net positive in the end I think.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I don’t give a fuck about the family of the health insurance CEO that got Luigi’d. They got their fortune from killing millions of Americans, and they still get to be stupidly rich for the rest of their lives.
If someone used a Death Note to take out the 100 most wealthy individuals in the world, you’d save hundreds of thousands of lives and improve the lives of orders of magnitude more people than that.