Public flogging

[styx chyx]

[quote]kinda like when UK sent all their prisoners to Australia except we will kill them so they cannot reproduce, sever the bloodline; it's the only way to be sure.[/quote]

What you trying to say dude? That we're all crims??? :

[toledo_jesus]

[quote name='Sojourner' post='972854' date='May 5 2006, 09:13 PM']


So yeah, what do you think? Should public flogging be reinstituted?
[/quote]
yes.

A man can keep his dignity through a flogging.

[quote name='Era Might' post='975734' date='May 8 2006, 09:23 PM']
Flogging is barbaric.
[/quote]
also, effective at deterring criminal behavior. Added to that, it would save money and jail space for really hardened criminals. This extra space and money might encourage a relaxation of the death penalty.


Flogging rules.

[quote name='Tarcisius' post='975673' date='May 8 2006, 08:32 PM']
hey it doesnt even hurt that bad.
[/quote]
Yes, it totally hurts like crazy. A proper flogging doesn't involve a man and a stick just standing in one place. Over in Singapore, they take a bamboo rod and run AT the floggee, applying maximum force in a highly concentrated thin stripe.

Major ouchies.

[Era Might]

[quote name='toledo_jesus' post='980349' date='May 13 2006, 02:44 PM']
also, effective at deterring criminal behavior. Added to that, it would save money and jail space for really hardened criminals. This extra space and money might encourage a relaxation of the death penalty. [/quote]

People usually don't think about consequences when they're committing a crime. Just a fact of human nature.

Besides, just because something "works" doesn't mean it is just. But we've gone over that before. :

[God the Father]

If the prospect of spending 5 years in a cell with a big man named Avocado doesn't deter crime, I fail to see how the prospect of a public flogging would.

[toledo_jesus]

[quote name='Era Might' post='980375' date='May 13 2006, 04:18 PM']
People usually don't think about consequences when they're committing a crime. Just a fact of human nature.

Besides, just because something "works" doesn't mean it is just. But we've gone over that before. :
[/quote]
well now let's see. we can't kill them, we can't deprive them of cable television, we can't put them in holes...

just [i]what[/i] form of punishment would be just? I think flogging is visceral and violent, but non-fatal and sufficiently embarassing so as to make criminals think twice before they do something stupid.

when a gangbanger is reduced to public whimpers for his crimes instead of doing a little time in the pokey so he can build up his rep, perhaps it'll make a difference in crime rates. Then, the fellas who don't respond well to flogging can take up residence at State Penal Apartments.

[quote name='God the Father' post='980570' date='May 13 2006, 08:09 PM']
If the prospect of spending 5 years in a cell with a big man named Avocado doesn't deter crime, I fail to see how the prospect of a public flogging would.
[/quote]
nobody gets to see the tender moments you and Avocado would share...flogging would of necessity be made public.

[Sojourner]

As a point of interest (probably to no one but me, but still) they're calling this guy the winner now.