A person can be killed instantly through many different means.

As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.

If you instantly destroy a person’s entire brain then they died without pain.

Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone’s entire brain are considered inhumane.

If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.

    • @Solumbran@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      There is a difference, but if you start saying that shooting an invader is humane, you have a serious problem.

      • @elephantium@lemmy.world
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        110 months ago

        Self-defense is inhumane? Call out the invader first, please, then we can talk about whether the defender is overdoing it.

        • @Solumbran@lemmy.world
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          010 months ago

          Killing is inhumane.

          Killing in self defense might be necessary, yet it does not become humane just because you want it to.

        • @Solumbran@lemmy.world
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          010 months ago

          That sounds like your average american too.

          Nonetheless, if you start thinking that killing is humane because “they deserve it”, I will repeat myself, you have a serious problem.

          Because I’m pretty sure that this horrible rapist invader is also convinced that you deserve it, yet I don’t believe you would find their behaviour humane for that reason.

          • @elephantium@lemmy.world
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            210 months ago

            if you start thinking that killing is humane because “they deserve it”, I will repeat myself, you have a serious problem.

            Fair enough. While I don’t subscribe to pacifism, I do prefer that self-defense be regarded as an unfortunate necessity. Celebrating violence isn’t going to help us.

            • @Solumbran@lemmy.world
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              -110 months ago

              It can be a necessity and still be inhumane.

              Having to do something does not make it good, and it’s fine as long as people see it.