Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.

I don’t know if this was posted here before, but I think it something that must be read by a lot of the folks on Lemmy.

  • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    5 months ago

    Aye. That being said, violence is sometimes necessary*. Executions of people who were already made a non-threat? Never.

    *With the caveat that violence does not need to be deadly all that often.