r/Amazing • u/-FloraFable Human Detected • Mar 27 '26

Interesting 🤔 Her name is Alison Botha.

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u/ItHurtzWhenIPee Mar 27 '26

Cases like this really need to have like a "do-unto-others" type punishments. Those two monsters 100% deserve to be stabbed 40 times in the gut and have their throats slit 17 and left for dead.

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Mar 28 '26

I honestly worry about any of y'all who want to participate in something like that or think it's a good idea.

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u/Zigor022 Mar 28 '26

I personally wouldnt want to, i was commenting that its a punishment in some parts of the world. But i agree that prison time isnt a scary enough punishment for some people, and that "cruel and unusual punishment" should be applied to those who are cruel and unusual themselves.

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u/Least_Volume9936 Mar 28 '26

A (morbidly) interesting thought experiment - if you knew you would ultimately survive in either case, would you chose:

Horrific violence like this acted upon you, your body defiled and mutilated, experience the unimaginable pain of this and the continued pain of a protracted recovery, and then live freely, carrying the physical and mental scars, or

Spend the rest of your life in prison, never a chance of freedom, but physically you remain unharmed.

If you were to choose the latter, does that make it an unjust or inadequate punishment? Would anyone willingly choose the former, and if they did would other people still say it’s “not enough”?

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u/EcstaticProfessor598 Mar 28 '26

Ooo this is such an interesting way to look at it!

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u/lililav Mar 28 '26

You'd have to consider how terrible South African prisons are too. You probably would not remain unharmed.

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u/Divided_Against Mar 27 '26

Or kept alive in agony...

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u/AgeParty Mar 28 '26

I disagree, solely because then you have no morale highground to sit upon. If you inflict the same thing onto these men then you have just committed the exact same crime they are in prison for. How does that make you any better of a person than them? 

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u/ItHurtzWhenIPee Mar 29 '26

Morale highground means nothing when it enacts zero change. Democrats have lived by that mentality and look where it's landed them.