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China should learn to do the death penalty in the civilized way: a botched lethat injection that leaves the injectee writhing in agony for hours before finally passing away.
I’m against the death penalty but if you’re gonna do it then stop being squeamish about it and use a bullet to the head or a guillotine. Fast, definite, painless, and honest about what it is.
Edit: replied to the wrong person
Really no problem with that? I mean deathpenalty instantly makes you a shit state anyway, but potentially having mobile units that can respond quickly to deathpenalty "worthy" crime?
I don't see what could go wrong. /s
I think that Benito Mussolini had it coming and fully deserved a death penalty
That's just whataboutism and waaaaaayyyyyy not my point
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
Good bot :D Does not change the fact tho
"whataboutism' is a worthless concept only used by idiots trying to find a shortcut away from interrogating an actual argument
you don't seem to have a coherent idea of what it means in the first place
you don't seem to have understood the point being made in that comment
None of these facts are changed by an automated bot making fun of you (and the joke landing)
No whataboutism is a terrible defense tactic mainly used by populists.
I am not even gonna answer to the rest of your points.
Change deez nuts
What the fuck is whataboutism about that post. They just meant that some people deserve to die because of the atrocities they commited. Do you honestly believe that a serial child molester can be reformed? Would subjecting them to a lifelong stay at a labor camp be better?
Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?
If you believe that reforming criminals is possible, you'd also need to believe that there's something unique about every criminal part a certain line of severity that makes them somehow physically unredeemable, and I at least have never seen convincing evidence of that.
deeply unserious
Maybe articulate what the actual problem you have is instead of using a weight bearing /s
What's the difference once you cross the line into using the death penalty whether you use an office or an ambulance? The vibes?
Even if the by-all-indications-fictional vans were real, the claim is that they're replacing dedicated static facilities with a smaller number of mobile ones that would just go and set up at a prison as-needed to carry out sentences.
Except the entire thing falls apart with even the slightest scrutiny. Just look at all the things being claimed: that Bad Country is supposedly frivolous and trigger happy and doesn't value life (unlike the noble and civilized US, where police up and murder over a thousand people a year, there's a rabid push for more death sentences, there's a bipartisan consensus eagerly baying for more genocide and ethnic cleansing and both parties breathlessly accuse each other of not being bloodthirsty enough, and mass death and suffering is just casually accepted as necessary for the holy line to go up), but that they then wouldn't also make sure to have dedicated, reliable facilities on hand for it and instead would rely on a sketchy ambulance with a chair and a poison syringe cabinet; the implication that it would be a rushed fast-response extrajudicial thing is also at odds with the idea of having a mobile facility that's performing what's supposed to be a "humane" execution method - if they're so bloodthirsty and barbarous ("because of their brainpans, you see...") why bother with something that's both absurdly convoluted but also really shoddy and sketchy instead of just up and shooting someone?
It's nonsense: there's no reasoning behind it nor material motivations and the whole idea is contradictory and absurd.
I didn't really get that out of it at all, but I developed a skill to see past a lot of the garbage. It was fear-mongering and overall just a scary way of saying China has reduced the use of death penalty, there are better mechanisms in place to prevent unlawful/unnecessary use of death penalty, and a drive to replace gunshot execution with lethal injection. The "victims" included are simply multi-million dollar fraud (essentially) and an abused kid that went on to (cw: violence) rape and kill.
You are right, in that there seems to be no widespread use of this van in the event that it is seriously used.
There is a lot to unpack there.
I might actually agree with your last point, it does not really make sense. But on the other hand, does it need to make sense to be true? I don't think so.
But also like I said before: I don't care and neither answer will change my mind about the CCP.
lmao absolute racist mush brain
Why would they have to be sneaky about executions if they're handing down death sentences in public courts? Do you even think about the shit you say for a fucking instant, or do you just see a different skin color than yours and start coming up with ways to describe them as sinister?
"execution squad" holy fucking shit
Just pure racism. I've read everything you've had to say about this subject and it's absolutely vapid. Racism is the source. Like I said in the first place, your opinion is 100% vibes based.
Don't play fucking dumb. All this media hyper-fixation and constant public discourse on the "apparent" evil of the "Cee Cee Pee Pee" is because China has geared up to be the US's main geopolitical and economic adversary in what is looking to be a period of increased global instability. So any time anyone brings up anything about how bad China is it comes with the clear implication of: "And this is why the morally upright Liberal Democracy of the US needs to remain a global hegemony!"
So pointing out that even if this crap about China is true the US doesn't have a fucking leg to stand on in terms of morality is completely valid, because why is any American concerning themselves with the splinter in the eye of a country they have no goddamn influence over when their own nation has a fucking redwood tree jutting out of their eye socket.
What are you talking about? No one here was defending the US.
If you can not grasp the concept of two thing being true at the same time I think we should end the discussion here.
Two things can be true at once, but so far nobody has been able to cite any evidence besides "vibes" that the execution van thing is true. So why are you so concerned with this thing maybe happening in another country and not all the shit defiantly happening in your own?
I am not. As I explained here. This whole thread is just about why this would be a terrible idea (anywhere btw) and how people in this thread don't see the problems associated with a mobile execution unit.
Then go talk about the other reasons why the CCP "sucks ass" rather than be a debate pervert about this bullshit
Nope because this is not why I came here.
Why DID you fucking come here?
i don't care whether it's real or not, and I'm going to argue why it's awful and horrible on the assumption it's real..
great argument
If you look at the pic in OP and do not have terminal libness stage you would quickly notice it's all hoax and atrocity propaganda.
I mean, they do execute bankers. So it seems pretty good so far
lmao this might be the most valid comment under mine But I am still against the death penalty under all circumstances ;)
You mean like a SWAT team? WTF are you talking about?