Talk:Torture/@comment-32394097-20181118074908

Not to be an ass, but this is honestly just really bad and I have no idea why so many people are acting like it's great.

Right from the outset, a lot of it makes no sense. Creepypasta obviously isn't always realistic, and there's a lot that I think can be overlooked. This story starts out by claiming that capital punishment was invented in 1700, though, and was controversial when it was first introduced. On the face of it, that makes so little sense that I'm honestly not sure that's what the author meant. I can't put together what they did mean, though.

Also, hanging was a terrible way to go prior to the 19th century and did not usually break the neck. That's just nitpicking in this story, though.

After that, the author just kind of assumes that we're familiar with the Hi-Fi Murders and will see them as the pinnacle of all human evil. The fact that they choose a now fairly obscure crime from 1974 rather than the experiments of Josef Mengela or Unit 731 makes it sound like they just saw a movie about it or something.

Then there's the leap of logic between "this guy was even worse than the Hi-Fi murderers" and the government deciding that his punishment would be torture rather than death. I mean...no, it doesn't work that way. Also, torture isn't some brand new punishment. It's been a thing since agricultural civilization began, at the very least.

From there, the rest really has no plot. I've got no issue with graphic violence or even "torture porn", but from there this story is literally just descriptions of painful things happening to this guy, mixed with some kind of weird soap box about how death is too good for violent murderers. It's not scary. It's just someone throwing together every torture that can think of in an incoherent way to make a story. Some of the things that happen don't make any anatomical sense, either.

They also just kind of vomited words at some points. I can't even figure out what some of these sentences mean:

"And therefore the events of the two innocent teenagers were secretive due to its extensive violence, and this extensive violence was the result of the government's pending project of torture."

What?

I'm sorry, but yeah, like I said, this thing is just bad.