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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by venomsnake on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:13AM (#12532028)
Civilization is mostly access to hot water, order and sanitation. And internet. Nothing precludes even torturous execution (or even mass ones) from being civilized. Human life is not that valuable no matter what we believe currently. We have 7000000000 - you could cull the herd with a billion or two and we will recoup in less than a generation.

I am not a supporter of death penalty too, but labeling everything outside of the current zeitgeist as inconceivable really hurts the cause.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by orly_bookz on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:50PM (#12543288)
That little "and internet" presupposes such a mountainous pile of infrastructure beneath it to be working that you might as well list out hundreds of things before it. You can't just throw it in there like it's an easy thing.
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