Archived Could cutting up the corpses of terrorists and feeding them to pigs act as a deterrent? (AskVoat)
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Archived Could cutting up the corpses of terrorists and feeding them to pigs act as a deterrent? (AskVoat)
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[–] mamwad 2 points 21 points 23 points (+23|-2) ago
Desecrating corpses is just as likely to fuel increased resistance as it is to deter it. Plus, I thought we were fighting barbarism, not engaging in it.
[–] nomenimion 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago
This is also what I thought.
[–] Dysprosium ago
And myself.
[–] [deleted] 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
[–] mamwad 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Nah, I was being sardonic and rhetorical.
[–] gosso920 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Napier#Service_in_India
A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. As first recounted by his brother William, he replied:
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
[–] DickHertz ago
Barbarism applies to how you treat people when they are alive not to the method of disposing the dead bodies so much.