Or it might end up with 99% of the country suffering PTSD for having seen it and increase support against capital punishment. When executions for pick pocketing were public in London, pickpockets would work the crowd.
It's a sign of our increased civilization, however inadequate, that executions are at least debated as inhuman.
They've gone from public displays to private little rooms, hidden away from cameras and crowds. Not
only that, it would make it like a horror movie on prime time, give it an unreality. It's the very think we criticize al Jazeera for, that they show war the way it really is, with the maimed and burned people and children.
Who're "we"? The hypocritical puritan american press?
I think what you're talking about is revenge, an outlet for the rage from losing the WTC. Perpetrators need to be punished, not taken revenge on.
How to punish, I don't know. That could be agreed on.
Clearly it cannot because the capital punishment debate constantly rages.
The problem as I see it why civilization is essentially a mirage is that human beings
function on the crocodile brain, the brain that evolved around (don't quote
me) 150 million years ago. The emotions, the limbic system are what run
humans. The neocortex, the thinking part of the brain, is relatively new
by comparison, probably less than a million years. We need not to pretend
we don't have emotions, which is what we do now, but to train our emotions,
work with them. I know I sound like a broken record, but there would be
few problems in the world if people thought things through instead of
reacting emotionally nearly all the time.
Some muscle is good. Unfortunately, we've become so muscle bound that even our brains are replaced with muscle. Fixing our own back yard and letting the world *want* democracy is a place to start.
"I've got an itching swelling brain and I'm OUT OF CONTROL"
Paul
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