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[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 37 points 5 days ago

Wouldn't be me, cruelty for cruelty's sake, but I respect the choice without objection.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 19 points 5 days ago

Cruelty for revenge's sake, I'd say.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago

Not even. The hangman, John C. Woods, was probably a sadist who simply enjoyed killing people slowly, unfortunately.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 17 points 5 days ago

Oh, shit. At least he did that to literal death row Nazis.

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 23 points 5 days ago

Yeah. One of those occasions where it's like, sick fuck, but no tears for his victims either.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Dexter zone

[-] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I’m just musing here, but isn’t revenge just another form of cruelty? Revenge gaines nothing, it loses more. It only achieves itself but then evaporates like cotton candy in a raccoon’s hand.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

Revenge can be cruel. But it doesn't need to be. One is getting back at someone who wronged you, the other is revelling in inflicting a wrong to someone. Different concepts.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

people like to pretend that one is justice and the other is revenge though. don't deny them their illusion

[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

But it tastes sweet, like cotton candy in the mouth.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

revenge often gains nothing.

sometimes it gains a lot.

personal experience.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

Ah yes commiting one of the same cruelties the nazis did while feeling morally superior for it, truly one of the moves of all time

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 11 points 5 days ago

Tolerance must end with the intolerant, and all that.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

Not tolerating nazis and torturing them are clearly the same yes

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

> Police arrest kidnapper

'Hypocrites.'

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