purpose of euthanize by cut?

[Mismagius]

what exactly is even the purpose of euthanize by cut? i never seem to have found any sort of good use for it.

[Terripan]

If you ever want to execute a prisoner, it gives less of a mood loss than just executing by cut or beating them to death with a club

[flu007]

It's also a medical procedure, so it trains your medics.

[GRIMZY]

i normally just harvest and remove every non lethal thing from them so they are defenseless and throw them outside for the animals

[Astasia]

It's one of the better ways to get rid of colonists you don't want. Euthanize and banish are the default methods, both have a -3 mood penalty for 6 days for your other colonists, but with euthanize you get a body to butcher and you don't lose any clothes. If you banish a naked colonist there's a good chance it becomes "banished to death" because of exposure, which is a -6 penalty.

You could also get creative and let them die "naturally" by restricting them from food, assigning them to a dangerous area like the freezer, or having them go punch bears, which is also -3. Or there's arresting them and removing a wall/door to let them escape which has no mood penalty, but a risk of injury during the arrest.

[Morkonan]

Rimworld should have Sociopath as a trait and "Euthanize by Cut" should give them a Mood bonus due to "Recreation."

[Scutty]

Originally posted by krislaastad:

i normally just harvest and remove every non lethal thing from them so they are defenseless and throw them outside for the animals

What!?!?
WTF!!!!!

[Bozobub]

New to the Rim, eh?

[Aranador]

The one time I used the euthenaze by cut, was on a colonist who had lost their spine during a tribal play through. It would have been years and years and probably a mod or two before they could have ever walked again.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Rimworld should have Sociopath as a trait and "Euthanize by Cut" should give them a Mood bonus due to "Recreation."

That's not what "sociopath" means, and Psychopathy (which is what you're describing) already exists in the game. :p

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Rimworld should have Sociopath as a trait and "Euthanize by Cut" should give them a Mood bonus due to "Recreation."

That's not what "sociopath" means, and Psychopathy (which is what you're describing) already exists in the game. :p

Well, a psychopath isn't really defined correctly in the Rimworld traits. (IMO, being several decades out of date myself) So, I had to improvise, choosing the extremely socially removed sort of objectifying point of view of people a sociopath may have. "Psychopathy" is a pretty broad term. At the time I was studying it, the DSM-III was burning its way through classrooms. The thing is, I remember the profs for abnormal psych classes getting sort of heated up arguing for/against sociopathy and/or antisocial personality disorders and psychopathy all in the same couple of breaths.

So, because of your post, I decided to find out why my point of view was the way it was. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1795%26context%3Dgs_rp&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjt5-G_58rwAhVXElkFHf0SCFEQFnoECAsQAg&usg=AOvVaw30spmci5crnJBE3GN1L-yv

Apparently, this graduate solved that mystery... Basically, they were fighting about it even back then. :) Thanks for re-igniting a decades-old diagnostic controversy. :)

[vortex_13]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Rimworld should have Sociopath as a trait and "Euthanize by Cut" should give them a Mood bonus due to "Recreation."

They do have a Sociopath trait

[Kittenpox]

Originally posted by vortex_13:

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Rimworld should have Sociopath as a trait and "Euthanize by Cut" should give them a Mood bonus due to "Recreation."

They do have a Sociopath trait

You're probably referring to Psychopath, as Sociopath isn't part of base Rimworld, but having this idea rolled in with that trait ain't a bad idea. :-)
https://www.rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Traits#General_Traits

[Kittenpox]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

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Looks like that link may require a login, or only visible to people in a certain geographical area, as it's not visible on my end.
I am using my phone, overseas, though - so that might contribute to the content of the page not loading. :-)

[SteelValyrian]

@Kittenpox - I am stateside and still get the same issue. Literally kept reading this thread to see if anyone else couldn't access the link's contents.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Kittenpox:

Originally posted by Morkonan:

-snip-

Looks like that link may require a login, or only visible to people in a certain geographical area, as it's not visible on my end.
I am using my phone, overseas, though - so that might contribute to the content of the page not loading. :-)

Sorry! I trimmed the "google" ref portion out. It's a redirector link to an open-source .pdf. Basically, it's a graduate paper on the controversy surrounding the APA DSM-III conference arguing about "psychopathy" vs "sociopathy" vs" anti-social personality disorder." Several notables maintain their own arguments for/against defining whatever their favorite thing is by repeatedly saying "nuh uh" and "no, you" over and over... :) The point being that anti-social personality disorder "won," kinda, with sociopathy included as a sub, yet certain champions continued championing their powerful "nuh, uh" arguments.

TLDR: "Psychopathy" got booted from the DSM. (Which also explains why my profs were so "energetic" about it at that time. :))

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp/611/

There, that's much better. :)