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There's a fantastic documentary called 'How to kill a human being', with Michael Portillo (former UK politician), made back in 2008. It covers this quite nicel

There's a fantastic documentary called 'How to kill a human being', with Michael Portillo (former UK politician), made back in 2008. It covers this quite nicely - Includes an interview with a death penalty advocate and asks about a 'theoretical painless execution method' and the advocate agrees that if such thing were available it would be ideal. Then later, after Portillo has done a bunch of investigation, hypoxia (I think) is landed on as an ideal solution. It's put to the advocate, who then squirms and insists that it's not a suitable 'punishment'. My memory is hazy since I haven't seen it in a decade, but it's a fantastic doco and probably freely available now.

r00fus 8y ago
So is your thought that the death penalty advocate really doesn't want to do away with the inmate, but instead to punish them?
- FooHentai 8y ago
  There's a gap between what's acceptable to talk about in terms of motivation for the death penalty (removal of the offender for society, full closure for victims/family) and some of the underlying motivations of people who believe in it (punishment, revenge). As a result it's hard to have a conversation when the two sides are ostensibly in agreement, but in reality have a fundamental point of contention. If you can't get everyone on board with 'capital punishment should not be about punishment or revenge', in terms of what they fundamentally believe and not just what they'll openly state, you're not going to be able to make headway. The documentary illustrated that problem very well, I thought.
copperx 8y ago
What is a doco?
- MetallicCloud 8y ago
  Slang for documentary.
- FooHentai 8y ago
  Apologies, looks like it's a local saying: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doco https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doco I'm being an egg (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Egg https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Egg).

r00fus 8y ago

So is your thought that the death penalty advocate really doesn't want to do away with the inmate, but instead to punish them?

FooHentai 8y ago
There's a gap between what's acceptable to talk about in terms of motivation for the death penalty (removal of the offender for society, full closure for victims/family) and some of the underlying motivations of people who believe in it (punishment, revenge). As a result it's hard to have a conversation when the two sides are ostensibly in agreement, but in reality have a fundamental point of contention. If you can't get everyone on board with 'capital punishment should not be about punishment or revenge', in terms of what they fundamentally believe and not just what they'll openly state, you're not going to be able to make headway. The documentary illustrated that problem very well, I thought.

copperx 8y ago

What is a doco?

MetallicCloud 8y ago
Slang for documentary.
FooHentai 8y ago
Apologies, looks like it's a local saying: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doco https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/doco I'm being an egg (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Egg https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Egg).