• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You are never going to get most Americans to care about anything bad that happens to the people who were behind 9/11. The ethics of treating prisoners don’t even go into it for them. And the ones who do consider it often say it doesn’t apply to such heinous crimes.

    Even for much lesser criminals who still do horrible things, I even see people here on Lemmy suggest not just capital punishment, but torture.

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          3 months ago

          Unlike Norwegians that still apply the rule of law for terrorists.

          I propose classifying Russians and Americans as Homo Sapiens Venator Scholae by referencing one of their distinguishing behaviours.

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        3 months ago

        Maybe, but I think a lot of humans have a bloodthirsty taste for vengeance when they hear about someone committing an atrocity. In fact, I think the more difficult position is to be able to put that very common need for vengeance that so many people have aside because it isn’t ethical.

        I personally have not had an issue with this, but I have said to more than one person that (for example) hoping a rapist will get raped in prison doesn’t make any sense from an ethical standpoint and getting them to understand that.