Edward w
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for han fei and lord shang to be acceptable the idea that free will is an important part of humanity has to be abandoned. this has already happened: eg sam Harris; Harari's _homo deus_ in which he, like the daoists before him, said man is nothing but an algorithm (天地不仁⋯⋯）
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
for han fei and lord shang to be acceptable the idea that free will is an important part of humanity has to be abandoned. this has already happened: eg sam Harris; Harari's _homo deus_ in which he, like the daoists before him, said man is nothing but an algorithm (天地不仁⋯⋯）
Han Fei and Lord Shang's view of human nature is essentially opposite to the west. these books assume human beings have no free will. rather, human beings are only motivated by incentive and fear of pain, and as such an be reliably controlled/manipulated through them...
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Han Fei and Lord Shang's view of human nature is essentially opposite to the west. these books assume human beings have no free will. rather, human beings are only motivated by incentive and fear of pain, and as such an be reliably controlled/manipulated through them...
... any individual victim at all. They however can be explained if judicial corporal punishment is viewed as a sign of of government power-- its power over life and death; its power over its citizens bodies-- more than anything to do with vindication or deterrence.
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
... any individual victim at all. They however can be explained if judicial corporal punishment is viewed as a sign of of government power-- its power over life and death; its power over its citizens bodies-- more than anything to do with vindication or deterrence.
Nothing in the first part of this thread explains why on earth caning is used in singapore for offences like vandalism of public property, drugs trafficking and (most recently) cheating-- these are crimes that can be- and are- done without violence; in the case of the first two, without...
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Nothing in the first part of this thread explains why on earth caning is used in singapore for offences like vandalism of public property, drugs trafficking and (most recently) cheating-- these are crimes that can be- and are- done without violence; in the case of the first two, without...
again, if rape is seen as a product of roving gangs of depraved asian men, the use of judicial corporal punishment will make sense in the same way as it did in the 1850s: the only thing the 'riffraff and scum' of asia would listen to www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2015_SG...
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
again, if rape is seen as a product of roving gangs of depraved asian men, the use of judicial corporal punishment will make sense in the same way as it did in the 1850s: the only thing the 'riffraff and scum' of asia would listen to www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2015_SG...
another possibility britian reintroducing flogging would be in a fit of populist nationalism-- to celebrate its decoupling from the Council of Europe and its human rights treaties, Britain will triumphantly repeal the laws that abolished the death penalty and flogging.
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
another possibility britian reintroducing flogging would be in a fit of populist nationalism-- to celebrate its decoupling from the Council of Europe and its human rights treaties, Britain will triumphantly repeal the laws that abolished the death penalty and flogging.
if they reject my judicial caning thesis I will instead do it on Littleton's treaties on tenures. I do not know whether this will be better for the mental health of the people who read it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
if they reject my judicial caning thesis I will instead do it on Littleton's treaties on tenures. I do not know whether this will be better for the mental health of the people who read it.
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this could very well happen: the government must be seen to be doing something, and as such implements the punishment for the few that do get convicted.
bsky.app/profile/jjof...
this could very well happen: the government must be seen to be doing something, and as such implements the punishment for the few that do get convicted.
bsky.app/profile/jjof...
what are you even talking about? people don't get convicted at all
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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this could very well happen: the government must be seen to be doing something, and as such implements the punishment for the few that do get convicted.
bsky.app/profile/jjof...
this could very well happen: the government must be seen to be doing something, and as such implements the punishment for the few that do get convicted.
bsky.app/profile/jjof...
yes I know this is not twitter, but bluesky is the only place where people will push back on my depravity instead of wanting to make me lord chancellor
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
yes I know this is not twitter, but bluesky is the only place where people will push back on my depravity instead of wanting to make me lord chancellor
... it is done. there is a reason why judicial caning has been so uncontroversial in singapore for the past 60 years, resisting the full machinery of amnesty international and all the human rights organisations that have been brought to bear on it. the government knows what the public wants
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
... it is done. there is a reason why judicial caning has been so uncontroversial in singapore for the past 60 years, resisting the full machinery of amnesty international and all the human rights organisations that have been brought to bear on it. the government knows what the public wants
that you subjected your victims to; the scars of caning will mark your body in the same way you scarred your victims. you will get nightmares from the whipping just like your victims will get nightmares from the rape. justice seen to be done; and judicial corporal punishment is how the public knows
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
that you subjected your victims to; the scars of caning will mark your body in the same way you scarred your victims. you will get nightmares from the whipping just like your victims will get nightmares from the rape. justice seen to be done; and judicial corporal punishment is how the public knows
I know this is not twitter, but bluesky is the only place there are people who will actually criticise my depravity instead of wanting to make me lord chancellor
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I know this is not twitter, but bluesky is the only place there are people who will actually criticise my depravity instead of wanting to make me lord chancellor
However, the day the UK introduces this law will be the day it ceases to be the United Kingdom
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
However, the day the UK introduces this law will be the day it ceases to be the United Kingdom
... a rapist who refuses to confess can be detained indefinitely-- a far greater threat, because even in a life sentence here's a possibility of parole after 20 years, whilst in this case there is a possibility the rapist will be detained until he dies
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
... a rapist who refuses to confess can be detained indefinitely-- a far greater threat, because even in a life sentence here's a possibility of parole after 20 years, whilst in this case there is a possibility the rapist will be detained until he dies
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Well...since you asked...
Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” got a outing in Lord Justice Wall’s judgment in Re R [2009] EWCA Civ 358.
(It’s also been cited but not read a couple of other times, including once concerning whether French Connection UK could register the trademark FCUK.)
Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” got a outing in Lord Justice Wall’s judgment in Re R [2009] EWCA Civ 358.
(It’s also been cited but not read a couple of other times, including once concerning whether French Connection UK could register the trademark FCUK.)
![124] I resile from nothing which I said in Re L. In the present case,
however, I propose to express myself in similar terms, but more forcefully. I
do so because, in my judgment, the damage in the present case has gone well
beyond that foreseen in Re L. Indeed, as I read the papers in the instant appeal,
and, in particular, the report and the oral evidence of Professor Zeitlin, and
listened to the careful arguments addressed to us, I was powerfully reminded
of the first four lines of Philip Larkin’s poem This be the Verse:
‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.’
[125] The rest of the poem seems to me to say more about Philip Larkin
himself than it does about the human condition, but these four lines seem to
me to give a clear warning to parents who, post separation, continue to fight
the battles of the past, and show each other no respect](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drwvh7wngwjgf5qv6vhppp5a/bafkreihp564pzoufiipyikozkjeaamd65buoxzugl4jhyt7apommr7k6ve@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Well...since you asked...
Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” got a outing in Lord Justice Wall’s judgment in Re R [2009] EWCA Civ 358.
(It’s also been cited but not read a couple of other times, including once concerning whether French Connection UK could register the trademark FCUK.)
Larkin’s “This Be the Verse” got a outing in Lord Justice Wall’s judgment in Re R [2009] EWCA Civ 358.
(It’s also been cited but not read a couple of other times, including once concerning whether French Connection UK could register the trademark FCUK.)
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November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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