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If it’s about sending a message, then the item itself is the conveyor of the message, not an unrecognizable but more efficient substitute. The guillotine is a recognisable symbol of people rising up and seizing power from the criminal ruling class. It is a warning and a threat.

If you plan on actually executing people, then sure - optimize all you want, or just go with a bullet to the brain.

But as a symbol, the guillotine is powerful.

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over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Let’s not encourage the troll. Sure there are certain people that it won’t hurt my feelings at all if they suddenly stop living, but at the same time I don’t agree with the death penalty, I think that just makes the executioner just as evil, if not moreso, than the person getting their head lopped off.

Death no good yo.

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- Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s a nice sentiment. But an unrealistic one. Be the bigger man riding his high horse down the high road after we win. These people kill us every day. With the police. Via social murder. Deaths of despair. Poiaon food and water. All their fault. An intentional policy choice.
  
  If we have to kill them to win. Then they gotta go.
  
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  - over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Makes about as much sense as fucking for virginity or killing for peace. I’m not buying either of those ideas.
    
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    SARGE@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It must be nice, living in a fantasy world where good people win because they’re good and the bad guys get to sit in jail for being bad.
    
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- missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I'm against the death penalty because I don't believe it should be necessary in a just world, nor should the state ever be trusted with that kind of power.
  
  However, I see the guillotine as symbolizing the last resort in an unjust world. The worst monsters in society commit their injustices in broad daylight, and nothing will be done about it. We know that justice will never be served through the courts. So what then?
  
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  - over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Other options are available besides death. Like, lock the 34x felon up in prison, like they should have already done…
    
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    missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They should have. But they won't.
    
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- sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They are already the executioners. The guillotine is all about executing the executora
  
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  - over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m not gonna stop ya, go ahead and build it and do it…
    
    I just won’t be participating.
    
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    sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not stopping is participating so you’re just as bad as us, Friend
    
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- dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Troll is a matter of perspective and in this situation you are the troll so what were you saying again
  
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  - over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I reject the idea of beheading, and somehow I’m the bad guy?
    
    Well you have a nice day too, and accept that you’re cool with people getting their heads chopped off.
    
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    dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Less people is the answer not more people.
    
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