Showing papers on "Torture published in 1975"
TL;DR: Psychiatric observations reveal that capital punishment generates disease through the torture of death row; it perverts the identity of physicians from trials to prison wards to executions; and it breeds more murder than it deters.
Abstract: Capital punishment is outdated, immoral, wasteful, cruel, brutalizing, unfair, irrevocable, useless, dangerous, and obstructive to justice. In addition, psychiatric observations reveal that it generates disease through the torture of death row; it perverts the identity of physicians from trials to prison wards to executions; and, paradoxically, it breeds more murder than it deters.
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TL;DR: Examination of rituals of two geographically distinct aboriginal groups, the Ainu of northern Japan and the Tupinamba of Brazil, suggests that these similar rituals may have provided effective mechanisms for the refocusing of ingroup aggression upon nonmembers, and hence acted as safeguards against disruptive activity within the group.
Abstract: Summary This paper examines some striking parallels between rituals of two geographically distinct aboriginal groups, the Ainu of northern Japan and the Tupinamba of Brazil. In each case an outsider—a bear for the Ainu and a captive in warfare for the Tupinamba—is “adopted” into the group for a time, treated as a kinsman, and then eventually tortured and killed. It is suggested that these similar rituals may have provided effective mechanisms for the refocusing of ingroup aggression upon nonmembers, and hence acted as safeguards against disruptive activity within the group.
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