Comment on New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows
CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoThere are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.
Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are not varying degrees of death.
They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).
You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right.
Cort@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm.