Caning

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2002-12-30 01:46am

So, what do you think about it. I'm sure we pretty much all heard the talk about it a few years back, about the kid in Singapore that was caned. I'd like this kind of punishment in prisons personally, rather than sending them to the hole- if you raped or beat someone, but doesn't the kid who was caned have permanent scars now? In Singapore they also have death for drug trafficing, very stiff penalties, I think they kind of take too far, whereas not flushing a toilet will get you $300 fine.

meNNis · Post by **meNNis** » 2002-12-30 01:49am

i refuse to vote until someone tells me what the fuck caning is

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2002-12-30 02:00am

I'd rather be hit with a cane several hundred times instead of jail... if you want a worse punishment, send them to jail. If you want them to suffer, beat them up. Although it isn't setting a very good example for the future.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2002-12-30 02:02am

Of course, that all assumes that I even got the proper definition of 'caning' in the first place...

Orion · Post by **Orion** » 2002-12-30 02:06am

"caning"

Basically being hit with a big stick, in the same fashion (I assume) of the type of beatings which are typical of singapore.

I think the correct spelling is caneing.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » 2002-12-30 02:15am

I think it's a good idea by the way, not many things are more discouraging than a public flogging.

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2002-12-30 02:46am

I think too often prisons simply train stupid criminals into being better criminals. Learn from older more experienced professionals. Caneing would take care of a lot of that.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-12-30 02:48am

In Australia, they use a big boot. I learned this from the Simpsons

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-12-30 02:59am

Darth Wong wrote:In Australia, they use a big boot. I learned this from the Simpsons

ANTI-AUSSIE PROPAGANDA!!!!!!

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2002-12-30 03:10am

I think that caning would deter crime less than prison.

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2002-12-30 04:23am

ArmorPierce wrote:I think that caning would deter crime less than prison.

Do you have a reason to think that way, or is it more of a gut reaction?

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2002-12-30 05:10am

Considering that for a long time, it was considered a badge of honor, as it were, in "ghetto" culture to have spent time in Jail, I think the prospect of a public ass-whupping would be a sucessful deterrent.

kheegster · Post by **kheegster** » 2002-12-30 08:14am

Some clarifications: In Singapore and in neighboring Malaysia, unlike in fundie Islamic states, caning is NOT done in public, but in a prison. And it is not the simple matter of spanking like one does to a little kid either, but involves a really big-ass cane (more than 2 feet long and about an inch thick). The prisoner is about stripped almost naked...they put a special loincloth with an opening which exposes the buttocks, and tie him to a rack. After about several strokes there will be open wounds. Medical treatment is usually needed by the time the punishment is fully dealt out. Often the prisoner will faint and the caning will be delayed to some other time. This punishment is considered so traumatic and severe that the elderly and women are not given this punishment.

KG

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2002-12-30 08:25am

Public humiliation ala "Scarlet Letter". Really big billbord type signs around the neck. "I am a Thief do not trust me" hung around the neck in front of the store the "thief" was caught at. Or perhaps "I drove drunk and could have killed someone" at an intersection. For child endangerment " I Left My Baby in My Car when it was 35C and he might have DIED due to my STUPIDITY"

I think that might cause SOME people to think before they act.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-12-30 01:48pm

Dargos wrote:Public humiliation ala "Scarlet Letter". Really big billbord type signs around the neck. "I am a Thief do not trust me" hung around the neck in front of the store the "thief" was caught at. Or perhaps "I drove drunk and could have killed someone" at an intersection. For child endangerment " I Left My Baby in My Car when it was 35C and he might have DIED due to my STUPIDITY"

I think that might cause SOME people to think before they act.

Tattooing on the forehead. Titles like "drunk driver", "rapist", "robber", etc.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-12-30 03:07pm

I'm in favor of caneing, caning or however you spell it. I think prison is too soft and comfy as it is and mostly teaches them how to be better criminals.

I think a serious beating would tell them that it isn't worth it. That this has consequences in a way prisons can't. It's pain, real and immediate.

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2002-12-30 04:36pm

Yes it's good. I've always thought public flogging was a good way to get order.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-12-30 04:43pm

kheegan wrote:Some clarifications: In Singapore and in neighboring Malaysia, unlike in fundie Islamic states, caning is NOT done in public, but in a prison. And it is not the simple matter of spanking like one does to a little kid either, but involves a really big-ass cane (more than 2 feet long and about an inch thick). The prisoner is about stripped almost naked...they put a special loincloth with an opening which exposes the buttocks, and tie him to a rack. After about several strokes there will be open wounds. Medical treatment is usually needed by the time the punishment is fully dealt out. Often the prisoner will faint and the caning will be delayed to some other time. This punishment is considered so traumatic and severe that the elderly and women are not given this punishment.

KG

Torture, basically.

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2002-12-30 05:22pm

kheegan wrote: This punishment is considered so traumatic and severe that the elderly and women are not given this punishment.

KG

I think the Elderly should be exempt from it, but not women, they should just get fewer hits.

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