Submitted 1 year ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
A person can be killed instantly through many different means.
As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.
If you instantly destroy a person’s entire brain then they died without pain.
Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone’s entire brain are considered inhumane.
If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.
As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly
This is not necessarily true. There are ways to fall asleep and never wake up. Not instant, but painless.
The key metric for ‘human’ actions is to avoid needless suffering. Livestock processed humanly is not panicked, not given a slow painful death, it should be quick, clean, and without pain.
Living conditions are human if they don’t create needless suffering, i.e. animals living in a open farm are human, animals living their lives in changes is inhumane.
I think the golden rule applies, treat others how you would like to be treated, is basically being humane.
I think the golden rule applies, treat others how you would like to be treated, is basically being humane.
What if you are a masochist?
I mean, there is no humane way to kill someone.
But on the USA death penalty issue, yes, generally choices about how it is carried out, are made with the spectators in mind, and the process itself is made more torturous in order to make it look better. (John Oliver has some great information in his death penalty video)
what about when its their choice, like euthanasia?
And (afaik) with the executors mental health in mind as well.
e.g. if you just crush a head with a stone you will know you did it.
If two others and you have to push a button you can tell yourself that it’s more probable you didn’t kill somebody than that you did.
Well you certainly chose an appropriate username.
ITT: Psychopaths failing to understand that not all people are psychopaths.
No.
Careful, you might to get crucified for ths opinion.
That would be inhumane
Oof, -11. This should have been posted in !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
I posted it there as well but people tend to be very touchy about human death regardless of circumstances.
I for one don’t care what condition my body is in after I die as long as physically I didn’t feel anything.
That makes me think of the Klingons from Star Trek “It is only an empty shell; do with it as you will.”
Inert gas asphyxiation is considered as painless.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
Why did you think killing someone (murder) could ever be humane in the first place?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the death penalty exists.
Because people are currently sentenced to execution even in the United States.
To those humans who are sentenced to death, why not choose a method that is instantaneous death, rather than something that can potentially fail.
I’d rather die instantly from a rock or a 12 gauge shell to the head than be injected or electrocuted.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
Here is a tip: The world is not the USA...
If you are complaining about something that happens in the USA, say so.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We do it everyday since we started existing, its completely normal.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sorry but do not include the rest of us in whatever you are trying to justify.