What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by cryptica on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:20AM (#25611737)

Well these people in particular need to toughen up and face reality so that they know what it means if the government executes someone, that it's not just a data point on a chart. They need to feel it and toughen up. If we become a nation of cowards, then those in power are going to start doing this and nobody will have the courage to stand up to it.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by CyanBird on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:28AM (#25611794)

> then those in power are going to start doing this

I don't know where you have been these last 70 years, but western powers have been "doing this" for a long, long, long time

What we really need is to listen to some Angela Davis speeches on what has been going on in the areas that The Media is too cowardly to report

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by chroem- on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:40AM (#25611857)

This comment is extremely disingenuous. The annual number of state sponsored executions in the United States can be counted on one hand. Most (all?) of the EU has banned the death penalty altogether.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by sascha_sl on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:27AM (#25611783)

Trauma is a real thing people experience, and having associated triggers is not particularly rare, believe it or not. I'm sorry if some particular political leaning convinced you that's only a thing on tumblr.

And I don't see how "standing up" in the US would ever do you any good, with the sheer force of militarized police and actual military. I hope this is not leading into a tired "if only Germany would've had guns" point.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by cryptica on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:32AM (#25611817)

I don't understand how 'being triggered' is a bad thing...

People who 'get triggered' are too sensitive. They have to train themselves. We are on planet earth, we live then we die. This is a fact. Emotions are tools to allow us to navigate our lives as members of society. They are useful, not something we should be shielded from.

We need negative emotions just like we need hunger to know we need to eat, thirst to know we need to drink, pain to know we need to avoid physical harm, etc...

IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by sascha_sl on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:35AM (#25611832)

Happy to see your peer-reviewed work on this. In the unlikely case you haven't actually done any research, I'll go back to believing the scientific consensus of "retraumatizing does not work beyond phobias".

>IMO, those who can't face reality shouldn't be involved in shaping it.

What is this even advocacy for? Voting rights only after you sit through a slideshow of graphic violence?

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by cryptica on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:03AM (#25611951)

The purpose of these images is not to help individuals to avoid emotional discomfort, it is merely to teach individuals what a term means. In this case, terms like 'state killing' and 'execution' are supposed to create emotional discomfort when read.

The association with the horrible imagery needs to be created or else people will not understand what they're reading with the appropriate degree of emphasis when the term comes up in the future. We will be a nation of apathetic, sedated cowards.

In the old days, people actually saw these horrors with their own eyes, not merely seen pictures; so they understood very well what 'war' meant. Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.

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Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die by CyanBird on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:26AM (#25612046)

> Probably why we haven't had a major war for so long.

It is funny reading this after not even been two weeks since the last attack on the US embassy compound in Iraq after the US denied Iraqi calls to remove US troops of the country it invaded 17 years ago

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