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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The only difference between a humane and an inhumane death, is whether or not it leaves a mess. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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A person can be killed instantly through many different means.

As we know it, to be killed painlessly, is to be killed instantly.

If you instantly destroy a person's entire brain then they died without pain.

Yet the most effective ways of instantly destroying someone's entire brain are considered inhumane.

If instantly killing someone by smashing their head with a massive rock, or shooting them in the brain stem is inhumane, then there is no humane way to kill someone at all.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self-defense is inhumane? Call out the invader first, please, then we can talk about whether the defender is overdoing it.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Killing is inhumane.

Killing in self defense might be necessary, yet it does not become humane just because you want it to.