[ExI] Beowulf

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:20:51PM -0800, spike wrote:

> On a weird tangent, I wondered this evening how they administer such a
> sentence to a woman in those psychotically uptight middle eastern countries.

We don't have to finance them, you know. For the cost of one war (what?
a mere 20-30 k$/family?) the US could easily become energy-independent.

> Do they apply the lashes with the woman fully clothed?  Or do they have

Um, no.

http://thepeacetrain.org/images/post/misc/071120raped_woman_lashing.jpg

That one went off easy, you could as easily cut through subcutaneous
fat and even to the bone. Lashings were frequently fatal, and a form of
execution.

> female whip wielders?  If the latter, how did the woman become a whip
> wielder to start with?  Are all the witnesses to the sentence female?  If
> so, would not they realize the injustice in the sentence, and simply have
> the prisoner scream in feigned agony while they schwacked the floor?  How
> could any male person verify the sentence had been carried out without
> violating the same psychopathic principles that brought about the sentence?
> What if a person is born ambiguously gendered in those societies?  Do they
> get some rights to go outside sometimes?  Can such a person give permission
> for a female relative to go outside?  If two ambiguously gendered persons
> live together there, can they give each other half permission to go out, or
> do they need to accompany each other? 
> 
> So complicated is this.

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