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John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of… (thelemmy.club)
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Full title: John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis.

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[–] 75 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Condemned men should be treated with respect. This isn't about the moral quality of the condemned, but the quality of the society that commits to execution.

The Nuremberg trials were a triumph of the rules-based international system. This fool undermined all of that.

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  • [+] -8 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

    Nazi aren't men, facists aren't people, they are the cancer in society level, you don't mind if cancer suffer when you do chemo...

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  • [–] 21 points 5 hours ago* (2 children)

    This kind of rhetoric is extremely harmful, as it encourages people to not critically examine the moral impacts of their own actions. Nazis were people. If you believe that only evil people do evil things, and that you're a good person, you are priming yourself to excuse any atrocity you might enact or support.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    It's because of people with this softcore thought on nazis than those motherfuckers are feeling confortable enough to parade on streets and show their faces on public without consequences.

    Those vermin need to know we don't fear them, instead they should fear us, they should know they would die if they don't crawl back to tbe sewers where they belong, like cockroaches

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    show their faces on public without consequences.

    Aren't they still hiding their faces?

    There is a huge difference between not fearing them and saying they aren't humans.

    There is also a huge difference between killing them (which wasn't even objected here) and saying they aren't humans.

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