Cruelty for revenge’s sake, I’d say.
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 13 hours ago
Wouldn’t be me, cruelty for cruelty’s sake, but I respect the choice without objection.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Not even. The hangman, John C. Woods, was probably a sadist who simply enjoyed killing people slowly, unfortunately.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Oh, shit. At least he did that to literal death row Nazis.
PugJesus@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Yeah. One of those occasions where it’s like, sick fuck, but no tears for his victims either.
MohamedMoney@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I’m just musing here, but isn’t revenge just another form of cruelty? Revenge gaines nothing, it loses more. It only achieves itself but then evaporates like cotton candy in a raccoon’s hand.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago revenge often gains nothing.
sometimes it gains a lot.
personal experience.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Revenge can be cruel. But it doesn’t need to be. One is getting back at someone who wronged you, the other is revelling in inflicting a wrong to someone. Different concepts.
- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
people like to pretend that one is justice and the other is revenge though. don’t deny them their illusion
PugJesus@piefed.social 12 hours ago
But it tastes sweet, like cotton candy in the mouth.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Ah yes commiting one of the same cruelties the nazis did while feeling morally superior for it, truly one of the moves of all time
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
> Police arrest kidnapper
‘Hypocrites.’
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 9 hours ago
Tolerance must end with the intolerant, and all that.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Not tolerating nazis and torturing them are clearly the same yes