Timeline for Could a society ever exist that considers indiscriminate killing socially acceptable?
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| Nov 26, 2022 at 21:08 | comment | added | Mazura | No one's seen that for 100y. | |
| Nov 25, 2022 at 21:19 | comment | added | Inertial Ignorance | Ever seen temple of doom? :D | |
| Nov 25, 2022 at 11:04 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | But how is this any more of an answer than the other one? The Thuggees, if they existed (whether in the 1800s or earlier) would have been brigands who attacked non-Thuggees and wouldn't even have accounted for a tiny portion of devotees of Kali. They wouldn't have constituted a society in their own right, and there's no evidence that they considered randomly killing in-group members to be fine. | |
| Nov 25, 2022 at 3:31 | comment | added | Mazura | @Shamshiel - 200 and one years, +1. "December 20th, 1821" : "all of the slave-holding states held that the first degree murder of a slave was a capital offense." Was murdering a slave illegal in American slavery, and if so, what punishments were given for it? | |
| Nov 25, 2022 at 2:37 | comment | added | Shamshiel | Murdering slaves in the US was a capital offense in all slaveholding states going back 200 years. it was certainly not without consequence. It was generally illegal in most but not all slaveholding societies, but sometimes the punishment was more mild. | |
| Nov 24, 2022 at 17:11 | comment | added | Josh Part | +1 for that Portal reference; although OP seems to be asking about plain random killing and not killing for a reason the killer believes to be justified | |
| Nov 24, 2022 at 13:10 | comment | added | Kef Schecter | Worth noting that the Thugs (if they existed) killed strangers, not each other. The OP seems to be asking about a society where anyone can kill anyone else. | |
| Nov 24, 2022 at 10:36 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | They also stole their wallets (well, not literally wallets since the 13th century or whatever, but my point is they were robbers as well as killers). I don't think the Thuggee groups were universally spiritual, and it's entirely possible that, even if some of those groups were religious, the religious justification post-dates their practice of robbery by murder. With apologies to those few who genuinely were in it solely to avert the apocalypse, and not for lack of a more attractive means of earning an income. | |
| Nov 23, 2022 at 19:04 | history | answered | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 4.0 |