Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks agoI've seen discussions about the future of automation where people speculate "what will rich people do with the general population when they're no longer necessary to keep industry running for them?"
Opening up the "let's just kill the people we don't like and don't want as part of society" box seems like a bad idea in a context like that.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s already open. They are kidnapping people from their homes and work and sending them to die in foreign concentration camps. It’s already here. They’re already doing it.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Stooping to their level ought to make things better, then.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
How would you suggest stopping them then? Fascists on a power trip don’t give a shit about your letters. Or your signs. Or your songs outside their buildings.
Would England have freed the United States without violence? Would Hitler have backed down from controlling Europe if you held a sign for long enough? How about Putin? Or Netanyahu? Or Pol Pot? Saddam Hussein? Hideki Tojo?
There are countless examples from history where meeting violent with violence is the only answer. They bring it. You either fight back or you die.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Put them in jail. If you're in a position to execute someone, then you're in a position to imprison them. These are not supervillains who can break out of Arkham Asylum every time there needs to be a new round of villainy.
Why wouldn't it? It freed Canada.
At these points you're in a state of active war with another country, execution is not an option. You need to fight the actual war at that point.
Afterwards, though, once you've won the war and have captured the leaders and war criminals and such? No need to execute them, the war has been won. Imprison them.
Those aren't the examples at issue, though. Unless you think a guillotine is a battlefield weapon?