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Interesting. Extremely traumatizing to the executioner, despite the (theoretically) bloodless death. I do wonder why prisoners being executed aren't completely
by endominus 5y ago
Interesting. Extremely traumatizing to the executioner, despite the (theoretically) bloodless death. I do wonder why prisoners being executed aren't completely anaesthetized first so that they don't/can't feel pain. Also, compare and contrast to the attitudes of an executioner in Saudi Arabia who generally uses a sword to behead people [0]:
"[T]here are many people who faint when they witness an execution. I don't know why they come and watch if they don't have the stomach for it. Me? I sleep very well."
"There are no drawbacks for my social life."
"I successfully trained my son Musaed, 22, as an executioner and he was approved and chosen," he says proudly.
"Sometimes [my family] help me clean my sword."
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/06/saudiarabia.features11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/06/saudiarabia.fe...
- revolvingocelot 5y agoAt the risk of sounding too ghoulish, I wonder if the right lens to view this through might be that of alienation from one's work. TFA's executioners are technicians, dressed up in the gloves and scrubs otherwise associated with people who save and preserve lives. Saudi executioners use a fucking sword, you know, like we always have! Of course, that cultural factor helps too. Not that dressing up in a black hood and hanging people would necessarily be less traumatic, but maybe we'd think differently if there was a cultural continuity of hangmen hanging people which we were all casually aware of as a consequence of growing up and learning about the world.