Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Ross
gently breathed:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:49:24 +0100, Pyromancer wrote in
, seen in uk.railway:
Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Ross
gently breathed:

In any case, with the sort of anti-social hardcases you're thinking
of, the scars from the physical punishment would merely be worn as a
badge of honour. Not quite the effect you intend, methinks.

In some cases, yes.

For the hardcases, it's not a case of "in some cases". It *will*
become a badge of honour, and quite possibly a requirement should an
apprentice-hardcase wish to be seen seriously.

Perhaps you're right - I do not understand hardcase mentality at all. To
me, if something hurts, you stop doing it. But I gather some of these
people don't seem to feel pain the same way normal people do.

But there are plenty of "followers-on" who
currently do nasty stuff because they want to look like hardcases, who
might rethink if they thought they'd really be punished for it.

I doubt it very much.

Well, unless the resource is put in to catch them in the first place, it
matters not whether the penalty is a slap on the wrist or decapitation,
penalties only deter those who believe they might get caught (ISTR you
saying something close to that several years ago!).

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