You’re caught doing something against the law and are found guilty. The law offers you the option to receive a severe, maybe even potentially fatal, whipping that will likely leave the skin on your back in bloody tatters, but if you take it you go free.The alternative is to spend 10 years in prison. Do you take the deal?
Really severe lashings can be pretty terrible and possibly fatal but I doubt it would come to that with modern medicine and a somewhat restrained lasher. It still happens in some countries like Singapore and people don’t usually die from it. If the pain is that bad, you will most likely grey out or black out once your pain sensors get overloaded. The human body can take a lot of punishment.
We had a minor version of that in my public schools in Louisiana. We could exchange each lick for corporal punishment for a day in either detention or a day of suspension. No one ever refused the licks because it was over quickly and didn’t cause any permanent damage. It really wasn’t that bad at all and I got a number of them over the years even through high school. There was no way I was going to sit in detention for 3 days when I could have 3 licks done in 1 minute.
I would take the lashing as long as I thought that it would be administered professionally and the scarring wouldn’t be that bad. Ten years without seeing my children much is a worse punishment than just about anything.
No.
No way.
Even knowing that my family would be without me for ten years, no.
Both, I would deserve it.
I’d take the lashing. I am a huge wuss so I am confident I would pass out fairly quickly.
The lashing, easily, as long as the risk of death or permanent injury was extremely low.
Sounds hot. Put me down for the lashing.
Are we talking white collar resort prison, or federal pound me in the ass prison?
Oh hell yeah. Any sentence that doesn’t fuck up my career is better than prison.
Why do you necessarily think those are two different places?
I’d take the physical punishment. I work in a prison, but I would go to great lengths to avoid living there.
The lash. In a heartbeat.
Lashing. I couldn’t imagine being locked up 10 years away from my family.
The lashing. NO contest.
Another who’d take the lashing. Maybe a month or two (how long to get over a lashing?) of pain as opposed to ten years?
Rum Sodomy & the Lash. The rum is cool. Sodomy as repentance? Not so sure about that. The lash? If it can keep me out of prison, I’ll take the lash.
Extra rum, hold the sodomy, if you don’t mind. (Love The Pogues)
If you guarantee I’ll survive, the lash. Before I was a Mother, I’d have picked the imprisonment.
Too bad Michael Fay isn’t a board member because then we could get a first hand perspective.
As for me…I don’t know. My immediate reaction is prison, but the more I think about it maybe the lash would be better.
I was just listening to Johnny (JACKASS) Knoxville explain that he is now laughing his ass off after getting wealthy from taking physical pain over the mental pain that comes with working to make someone else rich. So short of death, I guess I would rather get it over and get on. Ten years is an awfull long time to lose.
The lash, and it’s not even close.
A better question would be to ask how long the jail sentence would have to be before you trade it in for a whipping. I’d definitely trade in 18 months, and definitely not trade in 4 months. So, say about a year for me.