(though I had misremembered the per annum/in the entire reign ratio)
Blanning points out that it's still marvelously low compared to other countries. London alone had 48 executions per year, because even mild crimes came with the death penalty, whereas Fritz saved it for crimes that involved killing or trying to kill another person...and also soliciting desertion. *clears throat*
Hard same. Especially in a country where the law is highly capricious and backwards as hell
Right? It might have been slightly harder to grab two random men fornicating in an alley and then go, "Oh, wait, sorry, you're Philippe's boyfriend, carry on," but, like, look at miscegenation laws in apartheid South Africa. The black party to the "crime" would have their life ruined, and the white party got a "don't do it again." It's not that hard for a stratified society to enforce penalties differently! Peaceful protestors and violent insurrectionists in the US in the last 6 months
Another thing Horowski has said that I'm skeptical about is that Fritz is a showcase example of how cousins marrying doesn't lead to health problems. I mean, I can't prove that FW and his kids had porphyria and this was related to SD carrying the same porphyria gene that G3 had and that this was related to SD and FW being first cousins, but...the FW/SD kids are hardly textbook cases of robust physical health! (I agree that first cousins marrying is not as bad as it's sometimes made out to be, and repeated inbreeding a la the Hapsburgs is where it gets really bad, but...you might want to choose your example better.)
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Re: Sodomy
Date: 2021-01-26 02:28 pm (UTC)Blanning points out that it's still marvelously low compared to other countries. London alone had 48 executions per year, because even mild crimes came with the death penalty, whereas Fritz saved it for crimes that involved killing or trying to kill another person...and also soliciting desertion. *clears throat*
Hard same. Especially in a country where the law is highly capricious and backwards as hell
Right? It might have been slightly harder to grab two random men fornicating in an alley and then go, "Oh, wait, sorry, you're Philippe's boyfriend, carry on," but, like, look at miscegenation laws in apartheid South Africa. The black party to the "crime" would have their life ruined, and the white party got a "don't do it again." It's not that hard for a stratified society to enforce penalties differently!
Peaceful protestors and violent insurrectionists in the US in the last 6 monthsAnother thing Horowski has said that I'm skeptical about is that Fritz is a showcase example of how cousins marrying doesn't lead to health problems. I mean, I can't prove that FW and his kids had porphyria and this was related to SD carrying the same porphyria gene that G3 had and that this was related to SD and FW being first cousins, but...the FW/SD kids are hardly textbook cases of robust physical health! (I agree that first cousins marrying is not as bad as it's sometimes made out to be, and repeated inbreeding a la the Hapsburgs is where it gets really bad, but...you might want to choose your example better.)