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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 21 Aug 2014

    Q: Is it barbaric, per se, to behead someone? http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/rights-groups-says-surge-saudi-beheadings-20148211414761155.html … Is it barbaric to let someone gasp for breath 2 hrs during execution?

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      2. Ismat Sarah Mangla‏Verified account @ismat 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel oh but it's for sorcery

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @ismat

        @ismat And beheading Foley was for journalism. Both REASONS are undeniably barbaric. My Q is about method.

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      4. Ismat Sarah Mangla‏Verified account @ismat 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I'm just being silly. Any method is barbaric, no?

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      1. Madbrain Rudesby  😇‏ @Kaptain_Kaos 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel @cmarslett hypocrisy is the most expedient & versatile tool of evil.

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      1. The Sinister Sputnik Monroe, Jr‏ @MonroeSputnik 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel If I am executed, I will choose beheading if I am allowed to choose.

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      2. Faysal Itani‏Verified account @faysalitani 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Per se, all execution is barbaric. But some barbarism is more excusable than others. depends on context. @truthzmaster

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      4. Faysal Itani‏Verified account @faysalitani 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @ShamiWitness

        @ShamiWitness @emptywheel @truthzmaster No that's the argument you claim to be refuting. The context is the situ in which execution occurs

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      6. Faysal Itani‏Verified account @faysalitani 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @ShamiWitness

        @ShamiWitness Don't be an ***hole . You know what I mean. @emptywheel @truthzmaster

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      8. Faysal Itani‏Verified account @faysalitani 21 Aug 2014
        Replying to @iqy007

        @iqy007 @ShamiWitness @emptywheel @truthzmaster @xeni No. Also unacceptable.

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      1. Nell Lancaster‏ @nlanc 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Yes and yes.

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      1. sep332‏ @sep332 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Contrast with the Greeks who valued keeping the body intact, eg Socrates given poison as an honorable death.

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      1. sep332‏ @sep332 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel No. Roman citizens were granted a beheading even if they were sentenced to die, quick and painless (if done right).

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      1. Jason Kennedy‏ @savior_cinco 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Answer: both are barbaric.

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      1. M FILM‏ @dametzger 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Beheading is to barbarity what CDO's are to pension funds.

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      1. Mike Lynch AKA “Mikey Monster Mash”‏ @M_Lynch_ 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel Inhumane, sure, but barbaric no.

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      2. Helmuth Von Moltke‏ @HVonMoltke 21 Aug 2014
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        @emptywheel @dravazed is it less barbaric than the invasion of Iraq? absolutely. The u.s deserves Isis.

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      3. Jesús B Ochoa‏ @viejolex1 21 Aug 2014
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        @HVonMoltke @emptywheel @dravazed so 2 wrongs make a right? you are well named.

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