Timeline for Removing slaves' digit to prevent uprising
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| Mar 12, 2023 at 9:42 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | Deterrent works differently. Instead consider "see what will happen to every one you love if you disobey" which works better. | |
| Mar 11, 2023 at 18:02 | answer | added | sinanonline | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Mar 11, 2023 at 17:30 | history | suggested | njzk2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2023 at 15:26 | comment | added | njzk2 | Literally: the same digit that would prevent them from being actually useful | |
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 22:30 | comment | added | Mazura | First sentence should be the title because the answer to it is a no. What digit, if removed, would hamper a human from fighting using medieval weaponry, ... [so as to prevent a slave uprising?]... does not logically follow, and would then be a compound question. Or ask the other question, Would a lack of their hands entirely, prevent a slave uprising? You gotta sleep sometime. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 20:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 13:37 | answer | added | 0x263A | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 11:33 | comment | added | jwenting | @BradyGilg that was done as punishment, usually for fleeing or attacking their owners. It wasn't done to prevent them from fleeing, but as a warning to other slaves of what happens to those who try to flee. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 9:48 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 9:35 | answer | added | user86462 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 6:04 | answer | added | user102593 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 22:03 | comment | added | Brady Gilg | @AlexP It's not rational, but there are extensive records of Belgian slavers chopping off limbs in the Belgian and Congo Free States in the 1800s. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 22:00 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 21:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 9, 2023 at 16:29 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 22 | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 15:59 | comment | added | PipperChip | @AlexP Many eunuchs could have just been simple servants, no mutilation needed, just a bit more trust. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 15:34 | vote | accept | Corrbear | ||
| Mar 9, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | AlexP | @PipperChip: Slaves are not outlaws; mutilation of outlaws and prisoners of war was indeed very common. And as for eunuchs, that was how they were made; rather essential for the purpose. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 14:55 | comment | added | PipperChip | @AlexP Bodily mutilation of servants and outlaws was an historic thing, though! I'm thinking of eunuchs, but also ancient laws like the Code of Hammurabi and bounties on outlaw body parts seen in Europe. In any case, the builder want this as a facet of their world... | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 14:41 | answer | added | PipperChip | timeline score: 33 | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 14:39 | comment | added | Tortliena - inactive | Knowing how axes, knives, hammers... are tools but also potential weapons with roughly the same basic movesets, you're likely just cutting yourself of more efficient preventive measures, ones before any uprising is ever thought. Indeed, people are rarely happy serving their meisters when they know who removed their finger 🦋 | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 14:37 | comment | added | AlexP | (1) This is like asking removing which part from a car would make it harder to steal. Rational slave owners do not remove parts of their slaves; that would diminish the value of their own capital. (2) The last large scale slave uprising in the Roman Empire was the Third Servile War, a.k.a. the War of Spartacus, around 70 BCE. Then no more large scale slave revolts for centuries. How did the Romans achieve this kind of social piece? Not by cutting off bits and pieces. Research! (3) I think you may be confusing slaves and livestock. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 14:00 | comment | added | John O | For highly formalized martial arts (Japanese swordsmanship), removing the pinky might suffice... but in more pragmatic scenarios it simply does not matter if they have a bad grip on the dagger that is stabbing a slaver in the throat. He's just as dead. Averaged out over thousands of fights, it might make the slave a less effective fighter, but their numbers are so high that they don't need to achieve fighter-for-fighter parity. They just have to overwhelm them with pure numbers. On the other hand, if their tools were redesigned to not require hands at all, you could remove all their fingers. | |
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| S Mar 9, 2023 at 13:30 | history | asked | Corrbear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |