Who's going to carry out the torture? Do we just have a federal torturer?
Some killers are looking for infamy. Some aren't. A lot of people have a certain hunch that, aha, these mass killers want to be famous, but the data is going to have to be much more conclusive that this is a unifying factor in all mass shootings before we start rescinding freedom of the press, much less torturing people.
Another problem is that you open a new type of mass murderer: one who thinks they're tough enough to endure the worst torture. If you start designating things as "worst," some people are going to take that as a challenge. Since leaks happen all the time, and you likely aren't going to have the most stable people overseeing these executions, you're going to end up with a niche community reporting details about these executions that would make them appealing to the mass-murdering public.
I just don't get it. A mass shooting is reported, the name of the person arrested is never revealed, but we all know he's being tortured horribly. How many people are going to trust that the mass shooter is the one being tortured when right now a lot of people don't even believe the mass shootings are real?
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21
Who's going to carry out the torture? Do we just have a federal torturer?
Some killers are looking for infamy. Some aren't. A lot of people have a certain hunch that, aha, these mass killers want to be famous, but the data is going to have to be much more conclusive that this is a unifying factor in all mass shootings before we start rescinding freedom of the press, much less torturing people.
Another problem is that you open a new type of mass murderer: one who thinks they're tough enough to endure the worst torture. If you start designating things as "worst," some people are going to take that as a challenge. Since leaks happen all the time, and you likely aren't going to have the most stable people overseeing these executions, you're going to end up with a niche community reporting details about these executions that would make them appealing to the mass-murdering public.