Yes, by mimicry of a medical procedure, i.e., one meant to help, it perverts the skills of the executioners.
During debates on doctors and capital punishment, I've always said that I would pull the switch, or pull the trigger, but I would NEVER use my special skills to cannulate a vein and administer a lethal injection.
Execution should be done by a method that any of us could do, because the executioner is acting symbolically on behalf of all of us.
Execution should be done by a method that any of us could do, because the executioner is acting symbolically on behalf of all of us."]
Thank you for enlarging the area of understanding here, with such clarity and credence. Your analysis is so 'right'; I am wondering how this all escaped a more serious 'moral scrutiny' though I do recall debates initially. . .now it seems; they just make the choice or not. . .
Have always argued against this method of execution. . .feeling the 'dangerous oxymoronic'. . .the inverse happening. . .the 'kind and humane, personal', taking on an abhorrent and sinister quality, but did not know precisely 'why' it felt like a perversion of 'good'. . .save for the 'blurring of boundaries'; meat-cutter's do not perform operations. . .and Doctors do not work as 'meat-cutters' and a sensing a horror for us all, at the 'kind, up-close and personal, that is required for this 'humane' death task. . . and to the moral point. . .the premises here go far beyond the 'execution debate'.
The blurring of boundaries; removing them altogether, (while introducing the more subtle; more dangerous boundaries- ie political correctness. . .) is what Liberalism is all about.
This particular kindness; no doubt began, in the Liberal heart; where perhaps even their best intentions, cannot escape the 'perversion of ideas'' they are rooted in. There are other possibilities, of course. . .
. . . (*The 'Jewish Wisdom' offered by 'little Jerimiah' - post #28 offers a universal clarity as well: Ancient Jewish wisdom warns that if you apply compassion when you should be applying justice, one day you will apply justice when you should be applying compassion, which is one definition of tyranny.". . .)