Skip to main content
1 comment

During the Middle Ages, Reasons why it seen improper for the executioner to live in town





An executioner did the will of such a central authority. In this transitional period, though, someone might get it into their heads that the executioner was a valid target for retributive justice. Under the new paradigm he was NOT meant to be, but old ways die hard.

So, one way to protect him was to segregate him, at least a bit, from the people who might have reason to be embittered towards him.

Killing people is disgusting and frightening. Thus there is symbolic contamination in being an executioner. But we still want to kill people. Solution, for most of civilization: we have particular people who kill people and we make them stay away from us, so their impurity can’t contaminate us.

Executioners were treated as pariahs. But they were well compensated. Executioner families in different European towns exchanged daughters for marriage. It was similar to India's caste system.
you can click here to watch the video

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lucy McRae creates cushion machine to offer lab-grown humans a womb experience

Future humans grown in artificial wombs could replace the embrace of a parent with Heavy Duty Love, a machine created by sci-fi designer  Lucy McRae  for the  Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 . The cushioned machine completely surrounds its occupant in a supportive embrace, helping them to become more comfortable with contact and intimacy. The machine surrounds the user with cushions Los Angeles-based  McRae  imagines it could compensate for a lack of human contact in early life, which could become a reality in the near future. Scientists believe that artificial wombs will be developed within the next decade. "I made this machine because I am curious about the human consequences of bypassing the womb and that first hug of a 'mother'," McRae explained. "[I'm] envisioning a new generation of children having radically different formative years, developing new types of sensitivities and neurobiological quirks. Heavy Duty Love questions whether these future sensi...
Post a Comment
Read more

This is how long the average prisoner live once he arrived in Auschwitz before taking them to the gas chamber

Auschwitz was large but not the worst of the camps; it most probably was the most well known It was a labor camp. Prisoners were worked to death. Those arriving WERE sorted into those groups that could be used for work and those who were considered worthless: children, the old and sick. These were sent immediately to the gas chambers to be liquidated. So they were there maybe an hour before being killed. In 1941-1942 the extermination camps in Poland, Sorbibor, Chelmo, Treblinka, Belzec were used to empty the Polish Jewish ghettos. Understand that the word “concentration” meant where the Jews and undesirables were gathered or concentrated for subsequent elimination. There was a vast dislocation of people in the wake of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union. Millions of Jews were concentrated in sections, ghettos of cities and then were rounded up and ship to extermination camps. These camps were constructed away from major cities and from the time a train arrived with a load...
Post a Comment
Read more

Popular posts from this blog

How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps

How common were instances of sexual abuse in Nazi concentration camps. The accounts that rap£ or prostitution was common, Were the guards were given "free reign" over the prisoners given view of them as subhuman The Nazis sort of developed a network of state-controlled brothels during the war. This included both the civilian and military brothels. The Nazis even set up brothels for the forced labor inmates that helped with the German war effort as incentives for higher production from prisoners in camps. Back then these brothels were suppose to serving several needs. For the soldiers that were far away from home, the Nazis thought that having these brothels would reduce the possibility of rape in occupied lands and reducing the sexual relations with impure local women or forced laborer's, as well. Heck, the Nazis tried to use these brothel women to cure homosexuality as a treatment with male prisoners that were gay. Regular German women were exempt from serving in these b...
Post a Comment
Read more

The prisoners in concentration camps have sex with each other

 The prisoners in concentration camps have sex with each other Steady on. Nearly all concentration camps were single-sex, and at those that held both men and women the sexes were usually kept separate, though at Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and possibly also some other sub-camps they worked together. At extermination camps (where the sexes were not separated) most of the prisoners were killed within 24 hours of arrival. Prisoners did not have privacy. Remember that at the time most people had a horror of same-sex relations, especially between men. However, some Kapos and even guards forced prisoners to have sex with them. In Night Elie Wiesel relates how he found his Kapo having sex with a female prisoner, and he (Wiesel) was given 25 lashes for finding them having sex.* In the Women’s Camp at least one guard forced another woman to have sex with her, and at many camps there was a piepel (camp bum boy). *He also describes the hanging of the piepel of a Blockältester ( ‘block senior’). ...
Post a Comment
Read more