Speaking of unrasonable punishment, Is canning a man really more inhuman than locking him up for several years and exposing him to a double digit chance of rape?
AFAIK Singapore only canes prisoners in addition to a jail term and not as a replacement for one. Don’t know about their prison rape statistics, doubt that any truthful ones are available.
normal human
Y’know what else is normal and human? A lot of things that I shouldn’t even have to list to someone interested in ev-psych!
AFAIK Singapore only canes prisoners in addition to a jail term and not as a replacement for one.
Even if that is the case, kind of a nit pick no? Ceteris paribus it seems likely that if they didn’t use caning they’d extent the prison terms. Indeed women aren’t canned for example.
Y’know what else is normal and human? A lot of things that I shouldn’t even have to list to someone interested in ev-psych!
What if all choices are evil like you say, If I’m a monster maybe I should be the best goddamn monster I can be! Cry havoc, screw morality and be human! Can you not see the romance?
“Why not? I’m here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I’ve nurtured every sensation man’s been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I’m a fan of man! I’m a humanist. Maybe the last humanist.”
Heh, I guessed Mephistopheles; was just off by a century or so.
Can you not see the romance?
It’s hard not to see; such a simple idea, really. The romance of Christianity suits my refined tastes better :) Like Oscar Wilde once concluded from experience that to sin with abandon might or might not bring bad karma but it’s simply the most banal, boring, mainstream thing ever.
AFAIK Singapore only canes prisoners in addition to a jail term and not as a replacement for one. Don’t know about their prison rape statistics, doubt that any truthful ones are available.
Y’know what else is normal and human? A lot of things that I shouldn’t even have to list to someone interested in ev-psych!
Even if that is the case, kind of a nit pick no? Ceteris paribus it seems likely that if they didn’t use caning they’d extent the prison terms. Indeed women aren’t canned for example.
What if all choices are evil like you say, If I’m a monster maybe I should be the best goddamn monster I can be! Cry havoc, screw morality and be human! Can you not see the romance?
“Why not? I’m here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I’ve nurtured every sensation man’s been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I’m a fan of man! I’m a humanist. Maybe the last humanist.”
Guess who says that? Shiver my timbers!
Heh, I guessed Mephistopheles; was just off by a century or so.
It’s hard not to see; such a simple idea, really. The romance of Christianity suits my refined tastes better :) Like Oscar Wilde once concluded from experience that to sin with abandon might or might not bring bad karma but it’s simply the most banal, boring, mainstream thing ever.
ARrrrghh lad sure you don’t want to join me crew? We’ll sail for Somalia tomorrow! There be place for Christians on me crew just not very good ones.
But how shall we divvy up the gold? By backward induction, I infer you will give Multiheaded one coin and the rest of us will slaughter each other!
(I guess this is why our kind can’t cooperate.)
Aye the benefit o’ having a rational crew!
The benefit for you maybe—me, I like a ship with a lower Gini coefficient.
My faith is strong, you dissolute heathen! You can’t tempt or bribe me… unless you offer pretty boys, that is. I guess I’m a Catholic at heart :)