Originally Posted by
IceShadow
Half the members of firing squads are randomly given blank rounds so that they don't have to live the rest of they're life knowing that they shot and killed someone.
If I were a doctor, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that I had purpousfully killed someone by removing their heart or other vital organs.
Understandable.
Really though, a surgeon is a mere cog in the conveyor of inmate's fate, albeit the last cog. The society has already decided that the man must die, and a surgeon with the stomach will be found regardless.
I've always wondered about how executioners (during French revolution, for example) must have felt, chopping heads of hundreds of people. Was it really
executioners who were responsible for deaths, or was it politicians and revolutionists? I'd say it's the latter more than the former.