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He proposes that: ...flogging is just a few very painful strokes on the behind. And it’s over in a few minutes. But he knows full well that: Even under contr
by Lagged2Death 13y ago
He proposes that:
...flogging is just a few very painful strokes on the behind. And it’s over in a few minutes.
But he knows full well that:
Even under controlled conditions, with doctors present ... a full recovery could take weeks or months. In some cases, the scars would remain as permanent reminders of the ordeal.
How can I take this guy seriously?
- vidarh 13y agoYou do realise that the point of the proposal is to set us up to think "of course I'd pick the lash", and then to accept that it is still a brutal punishment, right? His idea is that we ourselves tend to have a view of prisons as horrible enough that we might pick a punishment like flogging that to most of us seem barbaric. Yet he expects that many will still believe that flogging is somehow not enough punishment to replace prison, so he points out the seriousness of it. This also serves to illustrate just how nasty prison is. It's meant to draw attention to the inhumanity we allow in the prison system, with a half-serious proposal, that, if someone were to take it seriously, in the article writers opinion, would still be more human than what is currently done, and would at the same time be far more honest about how brutal the system is rather than hiding the problem away behind prison walls and so be conducive to further reforms. (Note also how he proposes it as an alternative to be offered as a choice to prisoners).