Which weapon for killing is the most cruel ?

[kentuck]

Man has figured out numerous ways to kill his fellow man. Some seem to be more cruel than others. However, most demand that you look at the consequence of your deed. The most cruel do not demand you even know what you killed...

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1. Poverty

[kentuck]

2. A good answer, bob_weaver...

Poverty is a weapon of deadly dimensions.

[rwheeler31]

3. apathy/fear

fear/apathy

[upi402]

4. the kwai urine sounds pretty bad to me n/t

[Selatius]

5. The atomic bomb

Our technology has advanced faster than humanity.

[sweetheart]

22. It would be a great way to go, are you kidding?

Being vaporized at ground zero is a death without suffering, i'm sure, if they
allowed people to visit the test site of an above ground test, a whole lot of people
would take advantage of a free painless suicide.

[Selatius]

25. It's what happens to you if you aren't at ground zero

If you see the flash from a few miles off, your flesh burns. Everything around you is bathed in hot searing flames as the intense reddish-orange light ignites everything around you that is flammable. Then the concussion wave finally reaches you 30 seconds later and tosses you hundreds of feet away from the flash. If you don't die from having your internal organs crushed by the concussion wave, you die slowly from horrendous burns and injury of slamming back onto soil.

If you are in another country and witness a nuclear war between the two biggest nuclear powers, you will survive the first day, but I bet you won't survive the long night brought about by nuclear winter. You will die of starvation, or you will die from the radioactive fallout. It is not a quick death but a slow one that awaits everybody who didn't die instantly under a mushroom cloud. If Russia and the US expended their entire nuclear arsenals in one go, you will set on fire millions of square miles of land, and it will dump untold billions of tons of black ash and dust into the atmosphere. You will die in the darkness if you survived the war.

[TahitiNut]

6. Neglect.

Ask the mothers of Darfur.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

7. I would feel any of those other than the bomb and bamboo would be

and 'honorable' death. As in, if I had to die, those would be some of my preferences.

[The Sushi Bandit]

8. Drawn and Quartered

always scared me!

[upi402]

9. yeah that, and the cheese grater

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. Human

[kentuck]

11. I was waiting for this answer...

Thanks.

[Rosco T.]

12. I'm reminded of the old "Cut, Burn or Jerk" method

but it only worked on males.

get large tree trunk
douse with used motor oil
bring the victim to the trunk and nail loose skin of scrotum to trunk
set trunk on fire
hand them a dull butterknife

I think you can figure out the rest

[blogslut]

13. They all suck

I always hated that damned neutron bomb. These days, the slow death of Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry is at the top of my list.

[Clarkie1]

14. What is the purpose of posting a poll like this?

Don't we simply want to avoid all forms of cruelty whenever possible?

[lonestarnot]

15. Crime scene techi friend tells me the woodchipper is a pretty

harsh avenue, but why would you want to know something like this? You planning on offing someone?

[Solo_in_MD]

16. Those are all pretty clean ways to die. What about

Drawn and Quarted
Being broken on the wheel
Deliberate infection with a lethal deasease like rabies

You get the idea

[DanCa]

17. Denying them the research that they need for another person's

religious belief's. Trust me on this - it's happening now and I am an expert on it.

[Behind the Aegis]

18. Other: the one that is used.

[MardiGras Bandit]

19. Forced Starvation

is pretty messed up. Try telling that to Khartoum and Pyongyang though...

[porphyrian]

20. Cruelty requires that the victim suffer as much as possible.

For that, I would say something psychological, not things that kill as quickly and/or without warning as the options you have listed. Unless, that is, you threaten the victim with it for years in advance.

[DireStrike]

21. First reply is right - poverty.

Most of the people on the planet, tricked into a shorter life expectancy so a handful can benefit.

[Skelington]

23. head sawed off while alive, on video tape for family/world to enjoy

[Bluerthanblue]

24. poverty in the midst of plenty ... a long slow suffering-

watching your children sicken and die, while you are helpless to do anything about it- Its been said by several people on this thread before me, very well.

Poverty is the cruelest killer- it is not the result of an 'impulsive' action, or a 'chance' miss-step, but by ongoing, deepseated, callous apathy and unashamed hatred.

Those who violently kill you, at least acknowledge your existance- to be 'unseen' to be treated as if you matter less than nothing, that your suffering and death doesn't even merit notice, only compounds the suffering. (imho)

The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)