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.

  • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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
      12·
      1 year 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.