So I'm watching a History Channel documentary

[Bateluer]

Interesting show, sickening things done to people in the 1600s, the dark ages.


I didn't know that the dunk tank often seen at faires and amusement parks was a medieval torture device.

 

[Bateluer]

Oh, by the way, this a pretty graphic documentary and not for the squeemish.

Why I am eating while watching this, I have no idea. Its making me a ill.

 

[LookingGlass]

Oh hell yes, the ages past were so dark for mankind, go further to the greeks and romans. I cannot even begin to fathom the sheer torture. No thanks, we live such complacent lives now. Lucky us!

 

[Bateluer]

This documentary starts with the Code of Hammurabi<sp>, goes through the Greeks and Romans, the Spanish Inquisitions. Seems to spend a lot of time in the middle ages though.

 

[FoBoT]

actually, that show should demonstrate how ineffectual imprisonment is

we need to close the prisons and go back to some of those corporeal punishments, imprisonment is a failure of the modern world

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
actually, that show should demonstrate how ineffectual imprisonment is

we need to close the prisons and go back to some of those corporeal punishments, imprisonment is a failure of the modern world

The show makes mention that imprisonment was absent from most early societies.

 

[DaWhim]

does it talk about chinese way of punishment? if it doesn't, it sucks.

 

[waggy]

sounds good.

i got to see one that actually made me ill. can't remember the name. some of the older stuff was nasty. amazing what some of it was and how much punishment a person takes before they died.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
does it talk about chinese way of punishment? if it doesn't, it sucks.

Mostly focuses on European and US punishment.



Waggy - In Christian Europe, if a victim confessed merely to end their torture, they would go to hell for lying, whereas if they died from the torture, they would go to heaven.

 

[Atheus]

The London Dungeon has wax models and animatronics of the ways they used to punish people in England in the middle ages and even later. People having their bowels drawn out with a hook while they were still alive and suchlike. It's messed up.

Originally posted by: FoBoT
actually, that show should demonstrate how ineffectual imprisonment is

we need to close the prisons and go back to some of those corporeal punishments, imprisonment is a failure of the modern world

Like the ancient world was crime free... not to mention there are many things which were not considered crimes back then but are now, and visa versa. A few hundred years ago one could be punished in horrible ways for disagreeing with the church, are you OK with this? Who knows what we will consider a crime a few hundred years from now.

 

[Horus]

I like the egyptian method of execution. Someone's caught stealing? Take them out to the desert, impale them on a spike and leave them to die :|

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
This documentary starts with the Code of Hammurabi<sp>, goes through the Greeks and Romans, the Spanish Inquisitions. Seems to spend a lot of time in the middle ages though.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.