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Slightly unrelated but there was a good story from NPR a few days ago about the psychological toll that capital punishment has on the people carrying it out. It

Slightly unrelated but there was a good story from NPR a few days ago about the psychological toll that capital punishment has on the people carrying it out. It turns out that it’s a lot easier to declare that bad people should die than to actually do the killing part. https://youtu.be/znk3tdoilrY https://youtu.be/znk3tdoilrY

senderista 4y ago
Part of the reason Nazis invented the gas chambers. Even many of the Einsatzgruppen couldn’t personally murder people all day, every day without going insane.
- pyuser583 4y ago
  French revolutionaries ran into the same problem. They experimented with mass drownings, but ran into body disposal issues.
- duxup 4y ago
  Germans had problems with having just any soldiers kill off locals so they established special units to do it, and had problems there too.