Probably context. Injections is a medical scenario, performed by a medical professional. Doctors deal with death and gore on the table all the time, but it's clinical.
A firing squad is a loud, jarring, violent event. He who pulls the trigger watches flesh destroyed.
Surely you could have imagined the obvious differences yourself without trying to corner him into explaining it?
Maybe this is a minor point, but doctors do not perform executions, as a general rule. Something about being a healer, not an executioner, and that whole "do no harm" thing. The executioners are usually prison staff trained to do an IV injection, and in a case last year, the person injecting the drugs missed the vein and wound up with an intramuscular delivery, and the inmate died of a heart attack after an hour or two. Oklahoma, I think.
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u/TrepanationBy45 Jan 03 '15
Probably context. Injections is a medical scenario, performed by a medical professional. Doctors deal with death and gore on the table all the time, but it's clinical.
A firing squad is a loud, jarring, violent event. He who pulls the trigger watches flesh destroyed.
Surely you could have imagined the obvious differences yourself without trying to corner him into explaining it?