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What the fuck, Gary.

I feel extra dirty reading that from a First Nations community.

I mean, obviously the defense of genocidal war crimes is completely evil and insane, but I think it's important to also important to note that his utilitarian defense of mutilating people to death is also wrong. For thousands of years, humanity has had the argument about whether it is justified to torture people to death if those deaths prevent future crimes. But if "if" in that discussion is doing a heavy lift because torturing people to death doesn't reduce crime!

England's homicide rate in 1300 CE was 20 per 100,000, and in 2018 it was 1.2 per 100,000. When they used to torture people to death for the crime of murder, the murder rate was over sixteen times what it is now that they don't have a death penalty at all. But it's not just the elimination of the death penalty in modern times, the reduction in barbarity of execution has been a gradual process and it has been met with a reduction in homicide rates at every stage. And end to drawing and quartering was met with a reduction of murders. An end to corpse cages before that was met with a reduction in murders as well.

When the Law is less murderous, violent, and depraved, society is as well. You could certainly make a reasoned claim that only a society powered more by reason than wrath is even capable of abandoning judicial murder as a form of vengeance, but regardless of which direction causation runs it's still demonstrably true that there is no argument for the causation of peace through judicial brutality. The argument about whether ripping peoples' tongues out and leaving their bleeding dying carcasses by the road would be justified if it reduced murder rates is the most prurient of academic arguments - it factually doesn't do that so the entire conversation is just an exploration of a hypothetical involving torture pornography.

-Username17

Wasn't an eye for an eye originally intended to restrict harsh punishments? You were punished with whatever wrongdoing you'd done back at you, and not more, no torture or reprisal raids?

What type would that be? I'm thinkin' something like Poison/Dark or Dark/Ghost.

Plant something

I can see a case for any combination of two of Grass, Poison, Dark, or Ghost except Grass/Poison.

...yeah, don't think I want to see if there are any more images like this.

What made you go looking for them in the first place?!

I get Rhino, Electro, and Green Goblin, but who's second from the left?

I guess you aren't familiar with the original? A classic artwork:

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I'm still not sure who second from the left is.

Vulture, I think?

It's Vulture.

NO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procoptodon

why do they all have three eyesockets