It's like Rowling herself only treats Avada Kedavra as TRULY Unforgivable, which is opposite priorities than the Geneva Conventiona
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The Geneva Conventions are kind of self-serving though. They exist to prop up Great Powers. Any moral standing is incidental.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
I mean sure but I'm not sure even outside of that ppl would agree killing is always more evil than torture
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Avada Kedavra is just a gun that always works (trained gun users are always trained to "shoot to kill" if they shoot at all)
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And in fact aside from being unblockable and irreversible it's also explicitly instant, painless death
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent
I mean, look at the US and death penalty though. If "instant painless death" was something we considered ok, >
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> the death penalty would be carried out by opiate overdose, which is super reliable and painless
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But instead we have fucked up priorities even for people with a state that believes in killing ppl
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent
Yeah I don't actually understand what the standards are for the lethal injection protocol
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent
It's literally based around "they can't die in agony but we don't want to 'reward' them with a 'pleasant' death"
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Ugh that's terrible
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Same logic by which we spend great effort preventing death row inmates from committing suicide
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Even if the suicide method is extremely unpleasant clearly the agency over their own death is something they desire
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