the law is cruel af, whatever but the killing method, what the ever loving fuck don't th...

I mean if you hit a dude hard enough in the head he can die pretty quick. Or at least not be conscious.

Throat slit, he technically drowns in his own blood, doesn’t die immediately.

Stab to the heart, he bleeds out, idk how long bleeding out takes but it’s not instant.

snap them neck goddamn

Better off beheading him at that point

I assume their knives are blunt af considering they don't have good equipments, a blade sharpener is cheap yes, but what are the odds of finding one in the ruins? plus those things thin out too like erasers the more you use it. So that being said, it would be more cruel to use (blunt) knife as a weapon of choice. Gun would be better, but I'm assuming they are only reserved for the hounds, so yeah, I'm thinking the bat was actually the most "humane" way since he can hit him unconcious on the first blow like one of the reply said, so at least he won't feel the rest. It's messy though but if you want to send out a message, that surely works.

snapping the neck is definitely an option, he'd be unconscious in seconds and die within minutes.

thats the method they used so the ppl would feel fear, but honestly dictators throughout history that uses such violent means ended up with ppl rebelling, someone would definitely plot something so i don't think it's a good method

which dictatorship used this method? for all I know they either try to prolong the punishment via torture to extort something out of a subject, or do public execution via firing squad/hanging to send out a message to the rest of the group. And they do this out of their own volition too- no trial, no mentioning of crime, no voting, if you piss off a dictator just coz you pronounce their name wrong, they could very well kill you for that, and it's not even them who kills, it's their goons, they just give out the order - this is why the people rebel, because they are absurd people in power.

Exactly, dictators don’t do votes, they command and slaughter a lot of times on a whim.

the public execution checks out, i guess using the word dictator is wrong since there was a voting system technically (which i think is useless if the fear was already instilled) the right term would be that he's authoritarian.

i still think ppl would rebel even with a system like that, with the way things are manage ppl will start to worry that one wrong move they might be next, they would do that rebellion not for righteous reasons but for survival

“One wrong move they might be next” literally entails they know they shouldn’t be going against the rules or laws of the camp. It’s not like he’s some cracked up sadist that is beating them on a whim. As long as they don’t break a rule or law they’ll be fine, same applies to real life. Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes. Why is it so hard for people to behave.

authoritarians don't do votes either, that's just another form of dictatorship. Also what would be their motive for rebelling? the verdict was due to a crime that might harm the entire town, it was basically treason- they didn't fear him, they feared the collapse of the CURRENT system that has kept them afloat so far.

Imagine you're in a lockdown with broken legs along with 2 of your friends (1 able bodied, one sickly) and a bottle of water; the able-bodied needs to get out in order to get more water, the sickly drank the water because he claims that he was literally dying of thirst, unfortunately the able-bodied was unsuccessful in their mission, they return with nothing, they're tired and would like to drink water so they can go again the next day, but there's no more water, so what now? they turn weak too, so now all 3 of you suffer. --This is the dilemma that the town was going through, and they had to act fast before others think that they can just do it too/again.

because of the circumstances that is literally shown in this story. like that father whose son was fcking dying u could argue that he should've asked but i'm betting my kidney they would not give him medicine even if he begged what's also hard to understand that some circumstances can lead u to doing things

because a sickly kid that doesn't even have an assurance of getting better with medicine has less value than a hound who's literally out there trying to get them more sustenance to survive. It's really harsh, but that is the world that they live in, and they have to make extreme decision for the benefit of the majority if they want to continue what they are doing.

One possible reason is resentment. That father was clearly not the first to be executed, there could be someone out there who lost a family member, a sibling, or even a child under that same system. You can do all the math you want, but you can’t rationalize human emotions. Anger, grief, and a thirst for justice don’t follow logic, they build up quietly over time until they explode. That’s often what fuels rebellion.

resentment for what? it was a collective choice, who can you blame when everyone is in on it? who will join your army when you're the only one with issues? they might even turn against you for conspiring against the "leader", you fail to realize that the dude is a perfect killing machine for these folks (he might be genuinely apathetic, not sure) who want to keep the peace and order in check without getting their own hands dirty themselves.

With how much drama manhwa writers wish to make, the chances of a rebellion are high. MC is already upset about what happened to that father, I don’t see him handling any other deaths well. Even if it’s for the sake of the majority. He’ll probably try to advocate to try and save the child that’s currently really ill.

that kind of society would never last. When survival is the only value, people eventually turn on each other. they might justify sacrificing the weak now, but when resources run low or desperation hits, even the strong will become targets. they’ll feed off each other when push comes to shove. they would definitely self-distruct at one point.

lol, ever heard of survival of the fittest? even if only the strongest survive and they turn on each other, then those who died simply did not make the cut and was not as strong as previously assumed. The rest goes on, they propagate and start anew into something different and hopefully better, and then it gets too better, then shit starts happening again- it's all cyclical. Survival and death, they come hand in hand, it's just a matter of how much are you willing to go through to keep it going.

see this I can see happening coz the MC is an outsider who has no deep roots to the town, he doesn't understand the gravity of how much they value the resources over human life, so of course seeing a person killed for a crime that he thinks is quite reasonable would trigger him to go to the other side of the scale, and instead act as a defendant or in accordance to what he thinks is right.

i said the resentment would come from people who were victims of the system. just because something was a collective choice doesn’t mean it was free of pain or disagreement. sometimes people go along with things out of fear, not belief. that kind of forced silence turns into quiet anger over time. and about the so-called perfect killing machine, that’s exactly why it’s dangerous. people let him do the dirty work now because it’s convenient, because it keeps their hands clean. but what happens when that same weapon is pointed at them or someone they care about? systems built on fear and blood might work for a while, but they always eat themselves from the inside. it’s not a question of if, just when.

and I ask again who would join the army of rebels if the majority is for the system- not just in favor of the system but working for the continuation of the system? I don't deny that there were people hurt by the verdicts, families left behind, but do you think those same people would still survive when everyone is literally out there trying to sniff the snitch and presenting them to be punished? Also, no matter how strong the ML is, he is just one man, if he does go berserk and kill on his own just for funsies, you think the people won't subdue him? when he's no longer useful to their cause because he went bonkers? nah, he'd be thrown out or killed too, reluctantly of course because he's such a good tool, but if he's a menace to the order, he's no better than the zombies outside either. They are keeping him because he's serving his purpose and acting his role, he is the glue that keeps this delusional utopia at bay for everyone.