• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Well, if you’ve noticed, the punishments have been becoming less and less over many years, unless you are a small-to-medium business or an individual, in that case you have more rules and more punishments.

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        9 hours 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.