In Defense of FloggingPeter Moskos
In Defense of Flogging
by Peter Moskos · first published 2011
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I actually think that's not a bad idea! I want to read this book: http://chronicle.com/article/In-Defense-of-Flogging/127208/
on “This Guy Has My MacBook” ↗You're aware that the author is trying to point out the inhumanity of the American justicial system, more than actually defending flogging? (From your link: "Certainly In Defense of Flogging is more about the horrors of our prison-industrial complex than an ode to flogging".) It probably is interesting, though.
on “This Guy Has My MacBook” ↗When, on the flip side, the violence is administered by the State, this comes close to the argument of In Defense of Flogging. Like, "just give me a spanking and get it over with". (Though, that book is also about the cruelty and dysfunction of the "justice" system.) This also shows up in personal relationships. If you had…
on “Why is there no theory of the just riot? (2021)” ↗