My coworker and I were having an ethical debate about the death penalty.

  • Zagorath
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    4210 months ago

    I can’t believe I’m spending time providing a serious answer to this nonsense question, but here goes.

    Yes. Obviously yes. At least assuming the bullet survived out of the gun.

    Tylenol is a pain killer, but it’s not a magic videogame pill. Its effects are nowhere near strong enough to overcome the pain of being shot. And even if they were, it still takes time to be absorbed.

    Your best hope is that the Tylenol pill is too fragile and it breaks up within the gun, leaving a large number of small, light particles of Tylenol flying at you, which will get decelerated much more quickly by air resistance than would a single solid pill.

  • @[email protected]
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    1710 months ago

    Being shot by anything will hurt. Force equals mass times acceleration. It doesn’t matter what that mass is composed of

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Assuming the mass is equivalent between a Tylenol bullet, and a Tylenol extra strength bullet. They would do the same damage on impact. Force equals mass times acceleration.

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    Ethical debate, huh?

    Just say no to ethical debate. Friends don’t let friends do ethical debates.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      310 months ago

      As an ethical philosopher, I have to disagr… oh, wait, no, I get it. Well played.

  • @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    Every impact of a high speed accelerated object will hurt. Even a bullet made of hydromorphone (one of the strongest pain killers) or lidocaine (local anesthetic) will hurt long before the active agent has any chance to do its thing.

  • @cheese_greater
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    110 months ago

    It hurts to get shot with the wrong look for me so I’f say yeah

  • @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    Take a rubber band and shoot it as a projectile. If it hurts, multiply it by 12 and that’s how much a bullet would hurt.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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    -210 months ago

    No. It would be like a mild tap if anything.

    Unless you were closer than a few hundred metres. Then it starts to get serious.