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bayesiandragon · 4 days

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Not to sound like a crazy person or anything, but I do believe that physical violence and torture in the name of punishment/justice is fundamentally wrong. On principle. As an ethical standard. It's not something that's okay actually with the only consideration just making sure the receiver was sufficiently bad to "deserve" it.

#criminal justice #punitive justice #mandatory psa that I specifically mean measured justice via violence - I'm not advocating for no self-defense or serious consequences ever #I'm more than cool with reading stories that explore things like revenge or old-school punishment styles in historical/fantasy settings #fiction is the perfect outlet for catharsis after all #and it's just a natural fact of being human that we reactively desire to hurt those who have hurt us or others #but if you ask me seriously what my actual stances are.... I don't even slightly support it in real life #it's understandable and perfectly okay to desire and daydream about it - but not to actually do it #yes even for those that could be said to deserve it #both because it has zero positive consequence besides gratification in their suffering which seems a perilous impulse to feed #and because an action being inhumane is rooted in the receiver's humanity - and yes even awful awful people are human #I might not shed a single tear over certain people but that doesn't make it ethically permissible #serving victims betterment and addressing perpetrators to safeguard victims and give them closure doesn't necessitate cruelty #sometimes people bring it upon themselves that the only way to keep others safe is to lock them up forever or end their lives #or punch them in the face if they're actively hurting you

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