@KarlDahl remember, many of these people don't fear death; while it can feel good to punish people with death, it is mostly a instinctual response and provides limited long term help for the pain that was cause; merely knowledge that those particular people won't do it again isn't that useful.
The best thing you can do a saul moment where previous enforcers become disciples preaching against the evil that was done.
@sickburnbro The UK version of this is called RICU. They are the masterminds behind the "don't look back in anger" campaign after the Ariana Grande massacre. All arms of the media are commanded to go along with whatever chaff they put out in the wake of Islamic atrocities
@sickburnbro "Stick them in a tower overlooking the town they once ruled for twenty five years of bread and water misery" is a good one if you can ensure that you won't be regime changed
@anheim_secundus@sickburnbro@KarlDahl I believe it's technically possible for a regime enforcer to find genuine redemption, so I'm willing to allow the 2 or 3 that seem plausibly repentant to just get life in prison instead.
@BobsonDugnuttHB@anheim_secundus@KarlDahl The question is "how do you set up a change in culture that will last 100 years." Killing a lot of people is usually not a great answer, because as I've mentioned that ends up taking a lot of political power.
You want to do things which will return most of your political power. Killing people is often a power sink, in that you don't get a lot of power back from the things that don't happen because those people aren't there to do them.
@chitchatkat1@sickburnbro For real. The death of a child, especially in that manner... I don't think theres anything they could possibly threaten me with to shut me up. I'd be tempted to straight call the killer a nigger on tv honestly. Although probably wouldnt for optics reasons, I'd want to cause meaningful damage to their presence in the country not just catharsis.