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[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I am not here to debate whether public executions are right or wrong but

“Carrying out executions in public adds to the inherent cruelty of the death penalty and can only have a dehumanising effect on the victim and a brutalising effect on those who witness the executions,”

If brutalizing here means people are gonna be shit scared after watching this when even thinking about killing someone, then this is a very bad argument

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

It does not reduce murder or crime in general - but it DOES devalue human life

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[-] Shard@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

No. What happens is the spectators get severely desensitized to violence. Especially if the spectators are young malleable teenagers. And suddenly sawing someone's head off in front of a live broadcast becomes just another day on the job.

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[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

The brutalizing effect is the opposite: by seeing this kind of violence, people are more likely to normalize it and engage in violence themselves. That's the hypothesis, anyway.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago

never mind the fact that the taliban also does this for sexual assault victims and gay people not just murderers.....

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