Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Ok but like actually DNI if you support the death penalty. Yes there are people who deserve to die for their crimes. No there isn’t a court in existence that should be given the power to decide who those people are
Especially the court of public opinion.
#ok but what kind of an incredibly galaxy brained (/s) take is that first statement.#‘yes some people deserve to die for their crimes. I’M not telling you which ones tho’#either they do deserve it and then someone *has to make that judgement*#- a human person; not god or some other metaphysical moral instance that can’t wield the hangman’s axe -#or *nobody may decide between another person’s life and death*#in which case nobody deserves to die for their crimes!!!!#jesus fucking christ#death penalty (via @awordwasthebeginning)
I think the point OP was trying to make is that our court system, all court systems, are flawed. They not infrequently convict innocent people. That sucks. What sucks more is when they convict innocent people, and those innocent people are put to death over it. Having done nothing wrong.
If we have a death penalty, that will inevitably happen. Innocent people will die. That fact alone is reason enough to abolish the death penalty.
We don’t need to argue about whether guilty people deserve to die. Not if we accept the fact, well-supported by countless examples of wrongful conviction, that a death penalty will - and currently does - kill innocent people.
Being a fan-in-law is a nice bit of fun. For me it’s different from just “valued mutual likes something and I like to see them have fun,” sometimes I do develop a genuine fondness towards the thing in question. I recognize that it is probably very different from the fondness an actual fan has but like, it’s fun anyway. Like, no I will not watch that show but yes I do want to see your gijinkas of the characters. I hate that band’s music but I LOVE to see how you stylize their faces. god bless or whatever
I love the jem’hadar so much and they deserved so much better and it’s wild that a concept so steeped in unchallenged bigotry could contain so much pathos that was barely given the opportunity to shine through and yet feels so obvious and they deserve to be given proper focus that takes all these complexities into account and honours their potential
There were so many Jem'hadar characters that were given half a moment of light, only to be shoved back into darkness! Hell, the Borg had more opportunities to challenge and break free of their chains than the Jem'hadar did, and it’s so unfair.
Like, firstly, the child Jem'hadar. I think it’s fine he found the pull of the genetic programming too much, and went back to the Dominion - but you’re telling me he didn’t take any of his experiences with him? He didn’t quietly notice other Jem'hadar feeling brief moments of mercy? He didn’t think, at night, of the humanoids who showed him kindness and tried to show him a different way of life, free from the Vorta and the Dominion?
And what of Goran'Agar, and all the troops he had with him who were willing to torture themselves to break free from the Vorta and the white? Like, we never see him die on screen. If he felt the urge to break away and managed to do so, if he found that many allies, there must be many more Jem'hadar who felt exactly the same, but who were unable to do anything about it.
And then! There’s the Jem'hadar who fought with Sisko and crew to close the gateway! First of all, those Jem'hadar were on a mission to find “renegade” Jem'hadar - so yet another piece of evidence that shows the “blind loyalty” to the Dominion that was bred into the Jem'hadar is not perfect. They can and do rebel!
Sure, the main Jem'hadar in that episode felt they were helping the Dominion because they were fighting against the rebels, but still. One of them connects with Dax! The leader connects with Sisko!
And then! There’s one of the head guards at the Jem'hadar prison camp! He ends up letting Worf live, and finds he can’t kill Worf purely out of respect. He ends up killed on orders of his Vorta, but still.
It was so clear there was major unrest among the Jem'hadar and that the Vorta’s control over them, and the Founders’ genetic programming was not as perfect as it was alleged to be.
alright having now finished ds9 (sob) i can now say that every fic that has julian going to cardassia to help rebuild is correct, not just for the garashir of it, but bc i refuse to believe julian subatoi bashir could let suffering on that magnitude go unanswered. dr. “stayed on a low-tech alien planet for actual weeks mixing solutions by hand to attempt to cure a plague.” dr. “stayed up for (at least) four days straight and committed multiple crimes to try and cure odo.” sure, that man is just gonna let it go.
“The Vorta used to be quite different from what we are today. We were forest dwellers. Small, timid, ape-like creatures living in hollowed out trees.” - Weyoun VI
