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There would be less crime with a dominant religion that sacrificed prisoners to a death god. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Solved crime.

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[–] illi@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's just death sentence with extra steps...

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Actually fewer steps as they wouldn't care about an appeals process.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does petty crime that warrants the death penalty, and gets confronted while committing said crime:

Whelp, I'm facing the death penalty if I surrender or get subdued, so I might as well fight to the death, take hostages- anything really, as an alternative to certain death.

Leaves multiple casualties while fighting to the death.

Nice.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Death God always wins.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not at crime reduction.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Death God plays the long game.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Death God needs a better spokesperson, that can do more than sidestep criticism.

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Op discovers fascism

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This assumes that every prisoner has committed a crime and that the police do more to get at the truth than they do to close cases. Looking at history, these are really bad assumptions to make.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Just gonna fling an extra spanner into your already great job of crunching gears; lawful != moral or just

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Are you sure about that?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Do we have to wear the dumb clothes, too? Two people from TNG episode 8, Justice, in some of the goofiest outfits this side of Risa.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Unless you include sacrifice in your "crime" statistic.

This is more an illustration about how language can be used deceptively to hide the truth, rather than a method of reducing acts of malice/destruction.

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 1 points 4 months ago

But the crime already happened at that point.