3D Student said:
At first I voted all for the execution. I was kind of voting for the killing of specifically psychopaths in a relatively painless way. I had just looked at the
gator shocked by eel thread. Don't know if that influenced my decision. I was kind of thinking, "Well, the Universe is probably going to finish them off anyways."
I went back on another computer and voted no it's a crazy idea. After reading this thread I realized that they are a part of our existence. Earth is a learning experience that is defined by suffering. I thought "putting them in timeout" was kind of funny. Floggings seem like a kind of torture if I understand that to be whippings.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and doubts, 3D Student. I also voted 'crazy idea' as I mentioned before, but still have some doubts too.
On the one hand, as you have said, "the Universe is probably going to finish them off anyway". They are going to disintegrate even without our interference, it seems. The C's are not fighting them, as I understood, they serve both STS and STO. It is their (the corrupt politicians') free will to serve self to the extreme, and if we choose a different path, we should probably just let them be and learn their lessons, without violating their free will.
But on the other hand, I think we have the right to defend our free will too, i.e. not to associate with these people and not to let them interfere our choices.
So, if they lie to us, we have the right to expose them, and if they steal our money, we should be entitled to demand compensation, etc.
And if, in some cases, their psychopathic actions lead to some serious consequences, like diseases, injuries and deaths of other people, then maybe we have the right to even eliminate them physically and treat it not as a violence or revenge on our part, but as a natural result. Just as you mentioned about the gator - this is nature. The gator chose to attack the eel, thus choosing also the consequences of it, i.e. death.
If we look at nature, we will see a perfect balance. If some grazers are weak, for example, the predators prevail, but if they are strong, they can prevail too.
And when predators prey on weak (i.e. unhealthy) animals, this can rather be treated as mercy then violence on their part. Objectively, this is merely a natural cleansing, not evil. Remember Goethe's Faust: "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good".
So we should become strong if we don't want them to prey on us.
I still think that executions are not the best way, but maybe in some cases they are acceptable.