> What the world needs right now is a moral solution. A beheading for those that have fouled.
I understand you're using a metaphor here - or at least, I hope you are - but you ought to choose your words more carefully. The literal interpretation of what you're advocating led to mass genocides, slavery, destroyed nations and cultures, and many places haven't recovered from it. Yeah, there's crooks in finance. Khmer Rouge, pogroms, "reeducation" slavery camps, and the like aren't the answer.
If you were just trying use a colorful metaphor, you can just use "prosecute" instead of behead without losing your impact.
There was a story a little while ago, about a corrupt official in China who allowed baby milk to be polluted by taking bribes to look the other way during safety inspections. The Chinese executed him.
I'm confused; which of those ills (which one could compare to the corruption that this is about) do you not think had a "moral campaign" (similar to what the grandparent suggests) fighting against it?
I'm not saying it's the best framing of the situation, but going from "we should fight this because it is wrong" to "slavery, genocide, and reeducation campus" is a massive jump.
Have a look at 'the French revolution' for one instance in time where it worked reasonably well. The French royalty and its associated entourage had become such a drain on the country that the French decided to get rid of them in the most drastic fashion possible.
Yes it was gruesome and bloody. But it did move France forward in time ahead of some other European countries that even today have not managed to rid themselves of their God anointed overlords.
Of course there are plenty of counter examples but it doesn't always have to be bad.
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, the period of a revolution itself is extremely messy and it could go either way. But I think that it is impossible to argue that France was eventually worse off because of the revolution.
I understand you're using a metaphor here - or at least, I hope you are - but you ought to choose your words more carefully. The literal interpretation of what you're advocating led to mass genocides, slavery, destroyed nations and cultures, and many places haven't recovered from it. Yeah, there's crooks in finance. Khmer Rouge, pogroms, "reeducation" slavery camps, and the like aren't the answer.
If you were just trying use a colorful metaphor, you can just use "prosecute" instead of behead without losing your impact.