America executes trans inmate

Ever see the move Citizen X with Donald Sutherland and Stephen Rae, brilliant movie. Anyway in the end the Russian police took the killer to a room and gave him one bullet in the back of the head. That is all it would take. You could even automate it and deliver a few bullets at the same time to make it final in one swift blow.

What gets me about the way the US do it is they can go to foreign country kill dozens of people in an instant with a missile, and well you get the point.

I think they come under pressure to make executions more civilized affairs. Which is something we are subject to right across the full spectrum of society.

You can see this pressure in people being railroaded into accepting someone's gender identity, despite the small matter of reality and facts getting in the way. You are painted as being less civilized and even less evolved as a person if you refuse to play along with this game - and it is very much a game.

I think society has increasingly become shielded from the reality of death - or at least civilized society. As you say, the yanks will go off and murder people on the other side of the world, very often with barbaric methodology, but then people cry about a serial killer being put to death in Texas or something. I would even say the whole trend towards cremation over burial, is yet another attempt to shield people's delicate sensitivities from the reality of death. Death is not glamorous or pretty or tranquil etc... it's the expiration of your body. Whether brought about intentionally or by natural causes. We're organic matter at the end of the day - we're designed to expire. Hence why we are very easy to kill. (being dead may very well be tranquil or beautiful - who knows? hopefully - but death and dying isn't)

If we were less squeamish or delicate about death, yes we would simply put a bullet straight through the brain stem. Destruction of the the brain stem and I think the cerebellum, would induce practically instantaneous death and lack of ability for the brain to transmit pain signals through those vital receptors - hence as quick and pain free a method as we know of. Not to mention highly efficient and cheap as chips too. But a bit messy... which to many people means "uncivilized"... but only because they are deliberately disconnected from the realities of death, and so increasingly almost every aspect of death is an affront to their delicate easily offended nature.

There was a time when society had a much more intimate relationship with death. And in many respects this made life more real... but now that we are encouraged to shield ourselves from this reality, it has become somewhat abstract to many people. They are horrified and offended by the reality of death or someone being killed. When actually both are remarkably natural things. Human beings are actually the most successful predators that this world has ever seen - we are experts at death and dying. Professionals you might say. If you watch a pride of lions tearing apart an antelope on the Serengeti, those guys are mere amateurs compared with human beings.

So yes, unfortunately we cannot just use the most efficient and humane method. We must play along with the silly games that make up so many aspects of our daily lives these days! 🙄

It's pretty simple

If a Trans women was a real women , You wouldn't need to put Trans in front of the word women ,

Apologies should be USA, with over 100,000 rapes each year, and 15-20% of women being raped at least once.

So you’d wonder why anyone who claims to be all about protecting women has such a narrow focus.

Whataboutery?

The thread is about one trans person being executed, not a general one about rapes in the US.

What is your stance on Trans- women

Is it we don't get to decide, its there decision not ours, they are "women " if they feel that way ?

Would that be a fair thing to say about of your stance ?

Rather alarmingly, I've heard people referring to rejecting a person in such circumstances as bigoted and transphobic.

I'd hope to think such ideologies are limited to the extremists and in reality and are far from common.

I'm saying that gender and sex are the same, so gender is not surface stuff. Gender fashions (on the other hand) are outward expressions of masculinity or femininity, those human expressions do not say what one's sex/gender is because that's just social fashion conventions, i.e. I could stick on a some nail varnish but I'm still a man.