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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It actually isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this based on actual evidence or is it just prejudice?

[–] PugJesus 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not in 16th century AD Europe, I believe, but there are other precedents

[–] Thcdenton 9 points 6 days ago

"If someone be so bold and pay no heed to what is in the law, let him be bound to the pillory (kyphōn) next to the town hall for 20 days, doused in honey, naked, and in milk, so that he may be dinner for bees and flies. And when the time has passed, that he be pushed off a cliff, wrapping him in a woman's robe."

Lol get cyphoned idiot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting!

But what about the 16th century judges sentencing people to torture just for a trifle?

[–] PugJesus 4 points 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagabonds_Act_1572

Being homeless and jobless could get you whipped and your ear mutilated