It's an interesting trend from about 1000 to 1700s in Germany.
In a lot of cases, you didn't really need to hurt or torture a person....you just needed to humiliate them to such a degree....that they felt like 'crap' for years to come.
Keeping folks 'in-check'? Oh, I'd argue that probably a majority of people in some town of 3,000....were awful careful about their behavior and these little public events with dishonor....probably were continually done to remind folks about the realities of civilization.
After WW II.....Germany wrote up in Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law....a simple text which prohibits cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments.
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