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among the advocates for the application of flogging,
who would take into his service one who had been
so punished? Is there not, then, formed a class of
Parias, or moral outlaws, who are obliged to
consider themselves as being in a continued state of
warfare with society?
Disgraceful corporal punishments also lead the
mind into a bad course, that namely, of considering
less the nature of the crime, than of the
punishment, as causing disgrace and general contempt.
Thence often arises the idea among the more
ignorant, that the error is less gisgraceful, if they can
but succeed by fraud, or by obstinate denial, in
avoiding the humiliating consequences of
punishment.
The punishment of flogging, which has been
common in other countries, in Germany
(ruthen-streich), in France (les verges), has nevertheless
been abolished there without danger, without any
increase of crime having followed. Can it be
possible, that the Swedish nation, which is distinguished
by its deep feeling for religion, which has from
the earliest ages possessed a free constitution, should
be so far inferior to these nations, that it oould
not bear a legislation equally rational and humane?
The public voice will certainly reject this assertion,
and motions have already, during the present Diet,
been brought forward, respecting the abolition of
flogging.
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