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by forshaper
36 days ago
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It is the threat of competent violence that keeps me from, say, sunbathing in a park without clothes on, on a nice day. Our world runs on violence, but we mostly try to deny it, because it serves the few that control the many to keep the many divided. Your example says more about the costs of getting details wrong in punishment, than about punishment. |
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That's a rather flippant attitude when given the details of what we're talking about. "Oh well, some folks get caned, whatcha' gonna' do?!"
Also, if the only thing that keeps you from sunbathing nude in a public park is the threat of someone kicking your ass, then that says a lot more about you than you might think. It's not "oh, I shouldn't expose myself to others who have not consented to being exposed to my naked body," it's "someone will inflict physical violence on me, thus I won't do this."
"Our world runs on violence..." Yeah, and there's plenty of us who think that is not something we should be proud of and should instead work to rectify instead of blindly accepting it as fact.