TheMongoose

For certain crimes I'd be OK with it provided you can prove with 100% certainty that they are guilty. Not 'beyond reasonable doubt' or any other legal terminology. If there is any chance at all that they might be innocent, you cannot execute them.

But they'd have to be people who are dangerous to the rest of society, completely unrepentant and ideally having been through the rehabilitation process unsuccessfully before. You know the type. Those that don't want to change. Those that even in prison are a danger to others.

Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone over the last decade who'd meet that criteria, and in general terms I think I judge a society without the death penalty as more civilised than one that does condone the state killing it's own citizens.

So while in theory I'd be OK with it, it's safer for it not to be a tool available. When you have a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail etc.

Plus the general public are absolutely not to be trusted with it, and I can't imagine the sort of pressure that might be put on judges in high profile cases. Better for it not to be an option.

Andrew Fucking Wakefield can never suffer enough for everything he’s responsible for

Not sure I’ve ever even met anyone who’d care if Northern Ireland split off. Maybe some Rangers fans?

There were literally decades of violence and terrorism over that, so clearly someone cares.

That being said, But then I'm Welsh and live in England, I do not have a horse in this race. If the people in NI want to unify with Ireland and regain all their EU citizenship benefits as well as removing the whole "Northern Ireland border issue", then I wouldn't blame them at all.

He ended up on a planet where fantasies were so realistic they transcended reality and he wasn’t confined to the chair, so…

Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…

*gets asked for mobile number

Nope, don’t care that much.

Oh, 100% agree. I was just answering the prompt "What do you think history textbooks will say 50 years from now?" in the most depressing way possible. I do not endorse Trump, Fascism or anything that will lead to a dystopian future.

“And that was the beginning of the reign of the immortal God-emperor Trump (praise him!)”

If there is a god, north america must have been cursed by them.

I can't possibly imagine why...

It's the ciiiiiiiiiircle of lif *gets eye scratched out

And I feel bad for those of them that didn’t vote Tory in the last couple of elections and didn’t vote for Brexit. The rest of them were turkeys voting for Christmas and the fact that they’re surprised about this means they’ll probably vote Tory next time too and think their problems are still due to immigrants…

Not to exclusively blame them, of course. Tory scum are the root of all the problems and the sooner we take them out and shoot them, the better for everyone.

Fugu. I’m far too much of a coward to try it normally.

More likely the D&D/fantasy version. Harry Potter called them “horcruxes”. Keep your soul in a box and whatever happens to your body, you can’t truly die.

But I didn’t know they were based on Jewish mythology, so thanks for that TIL!