• Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    7 hours ago

    I kind of agree with this type of objection. But note that the instrument of death is a guillotine. That hearkens back to a time of radical societal change, the French Revolution.

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      Additionally guillotines were seen as a more humane method of execution than the hangings and manual beheading of pre-Enlightenment France.