This isn’t particularly high on my list of concerns, but there is a reason most suicide victims use a gunshot to the head if they can. It is the simplest, most reliable, and quickest way of killing someone. But it blows brains all over the wall, which makes people feel squeamish.
So instead we inject people with a lethal combination of drugs which can take hours to work, if it works at all, often leaving them in agonising pain the whole way. The solution is to just use the gun.
Like you, Nazi Germany needed to execute large numbers of mostly nonviolent people too. They originally used bullets, which seemed cheap, but that method ultimately caused psychological trauma for the people doing the mass executions. That was psychologically unsustainable for the Nazis, including the SS, so they switched to gas chambers, instead, which provided psychological comfort for their employees. I recommend you learn from their mistake and just start with the gas chambers.
(Trollish reply. I’m not in favor of the death penalty.) I take your point re: that a death penalty cannot be implemented if individual executioners need to kill individual people via guns. But I’ll counter that it also can’t be implemented in the 21st century via gas chambers, because your executioners will realize the parallel to Nazi Germany. (“Are we the baddies?”) To split the difference, how about having executioners execute people via drones armed with bullets?
I accept this compromise. To improve your suggestion even further, I propose we gamify the drone-operating app. Utopia is within our grasp. We need only the courage to do what must be done.
Like you, Nazi Germany needed to execute large numbers of mostly nonviolent people too. They originally used bullets, which seemed cheap, but that method ultimately caused psychological trauma for the people doing the mass executions. That was psychologically unsustainable for the Nazis, including the SS, so they switched to gas chambers, instead, which provided psychological comfort for their employees. I recommend you learn from their mistake and just start with the gas chambers.
(Trollish reply. I’m not in favor of the death penalty.) I take your point re: that a death penalty cannot be implemented if individual executioners need to kill individual people via guns. But I’ll counter that it also can’t be implemented in the 21st century via gas chambers, because your executioners will realize the parallel to Nazi Germany. (“Are we the baddies?”) To split the difference, how about having executioners execute people via drones armed with bullets?
I accept this compromise. To improve your suggestion even further, I propose we gamify the drone-operating app. Utopia is within our grasp. We need only the courage to do what must be done.