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Axebird · Post by **Axebird** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:29 pm

What the fuck, Gary.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:21 am

I feel extra dirty reading that from a First Nations community.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:43 am

I mean, obviously the defense of genocidal war crimes is completely evil and insane, but I think it's important to also important to note that his utilitarian defense of mutilating people to death is also wrong. For thousands of years, humanity has had the argument about whether it is justified to torture people to death if those deaths prevent future crimes. But if "if" in that discussion is doing a heavy lift because torturing people to death doesn't reduce crime!

England's homicide rate in 1300 CE was 20 per 100,000, and in 2018 it was 1.2 per 100,000. When they used to torture people to death for the crime of murder, the murder rate was over sixteen times what it is now that they don't have a death penalty at all. But it's not just the elimination of the death penalty in modern times, the reduction in barbarity of execution has been a gradual process and it has been met with a reduction in homicide rates at every stage. And end to drawing and quartering was met with a reduction of murders. An end to corpse cages before that was met with a reduction in murders as well.

When the Law is less murderous, violent, and depraved, society is as well. You could certainly make a reasoned claim that only a society powered more by reason than wrath is even capable of abandoning judicial murder as a form of vengeance, but regardless of which direction causation runs it's still demonstrably true that there is no argument for the causation of peace through judicial brutality. The argument about whether ripping peoples' tongues out and leaving their bleeding dying carcasses by the road would be justified if it reduced murder rates is the most prurient of academic arguments - it factually doesn't do that so the entire conversation is just an exploration of a hypothetical involving torture pornography.

-Username17

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:21 pm

Wasn't an eye for an eye originally intended to restrict harsh punishments? You were punished with whatever wrongdoing you'd done back at you, and not more, no torture or reprisal raids?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:12 pm

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 5:36 pm

What type would that be? I'm thinkin' something like Poison/Dark or Dark/Ghost.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:46 pm

Plant something

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:49 pm

I can see a case for any combination of two of Grass, Poison, Dark, or Ghost except Grass/Poison.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:48 pm

...yeah, don't think I want to see if there are any more images like this.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:36 pm

What made you go looking for them in the first place?!

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:41 pm

Weird shit pops up on my twitter.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:30 am

I get Rhino, Electro, and Green Goblin, but who's second from the left?

Foxwarrior · Post by **Foxwarrior** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:45 am

I guess you aren't familiar with the original? A classic artwork:

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Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:16 am

I'm still not sure who second from the left is.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:10 am

Vulture, I think?

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:02 pm

It's Vulture.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:44 pm

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:49 pm

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:44 pm

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:41 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procoptodon

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:40 pm

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:44 am

why do they all have three eyesockets