03-06-2015, 09:11 AM
BaneOfGiygas Wrote:If you're talking about real life, no, convictions and executions are usually not carried out by the same person who arrested you (unless you're a non-white teenager). Personally, I think that we shouldn't encourage sec to think of executions as part of their job, both because it tends to lead to shitty behavior and because it tends to be something carried out silently in a dark corner based solely on one person's decision rather than something the station is involved in.Paineframe Wrote:The only thing that your idea actually adds is putting the actual execution in the hands of the sec guard, reducing the scientist to a simple supplier. And honestly, I don't really like that.Pardon me if I'm inexperienced with proper execution etiquette, but isn't execution supposed to be put in the hands of the sec guard?
If somebody's being a complete and total shitler and constantly robusting sec and just being a major pain to deal with, then sure, whatever, "accidentally" chuck them out an airlock. But if you've got somebody handled well enough that you can afford to spend the time using special execution equipment to give them a flashy end, I feel like that special equipment should be in the bridge or the courtroom or the chapel or the test chamber - anywhere but in some secluded corner in sec. It makes formal "for the good of the station" executions more of a communal thing. If you need to execute some gray tide moron for being a total and persistent shit, sec can still strangle them to death in their brig cell, but if you're going through the trouble of making a show out of it using dedicated equipment, it shouldn't be something sec does all on their own without anyone seeing or knowing. Besides, if you put execution equipment in sec, I feel like it leads to shitty sec behavior because newer/shittier/supercoppy sec will see that sec had dedicated execution equipment and assumed it was fine for them to use it whenever they wanted.