re: #96 Political Atheist

What chills me to the bone is maybe the reason we don’t do painless is we want to punish beyond that act of ending the life. At some brutal awful level some of us want the suffering or a “lesson” to be made, All in either latent masochism or desire for roman spectacle.

Feeling like a rant-
For the sake of our own moral center can we not at least be as kind as we are to a sick animal?

This is really upsetting me deeply. But once in a while a shout can be cathartic. Sorry for the bold.

The thing is, just like having the death penalty at all means we’ll inevitably execute innocent people, having the death penalty also means it’s going to fuck up and be painful or horrible sometimes. Adding to this problem, most medical professionals refuse to participate in executions, and it’s so rare that nobody can become experienced at it—and would you really want to meet the dude who made a speciality of it?

Ironically, if we had assisted suicide, we’d be better at this, but even then, that’s why they tend to give them a shitload of morphine or whatever.