Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
gian@lemmy.grys.it 6 days agoI noted it. That is why I said that the problem is the punishment.
Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
gian@lemmy.grys.it 6 days agoI noted it. That is why I said that the problem is the punishment.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They didn’t stop handing out harsh punishments. Just in a highly unpredictable, unequal and arbitrary pattern.
I’ve read someplace that the main difference between modernity and middle ages in legal practice was that in modernity punishments were relatively small, but unavoidable, while in middle ages most criminals avoided punishments, but here and there some poor idiot would be made an example of in a highly disproportionate way, like being quartered for stealing some shit and being rude to a priest.