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kiteinspaceI think call outs are really neat actually in that it lets us get a developmental view of one of the oldest punishment systems, branding/exile. we all witnessed how people came to the conclusion that marking people as undesireable is a good idea - by painting pictures of monsters. Someone in exile is subject to wild beasts and closed off from sources of food and shelter, just like someone disgraced by the public finds it harder to get a job, and people reluctant to put them into the public sphere = job ceilings.
The reason that exile is preferred over other punishment is that it's not physically cruel, but rather socially cruel, isolating someone from human company and subjecting them to the mercy of their mental demons - an element of imprisonment, another common punishment.
Someone branded yet still integrated into society suffers loss of food and shelter as previously discussed but also a form of social punishment where violence toward you is acceptable, often resulting in physical injury... The uniqueness of this repeated injury, like a torture method, is that it does not use something like an elaborate device for causing pain, but rather "humanity" as a tool for torture. Other people, the "Other" in our mind distinguished from the Self. Metaphysical. Promethean.
The reason that exile is preferred over other punishment is that it's not physically cruel, but rather socially cruel, isolating someone from human company and subjecting them to the mercy of their mental demons - an element of imprisonment, another common punishment.
Someone branded yet still integrated into society suffers loss of food and shelter as previously discussed but also a form of social punishment where violence toward you is acceptable, often resulting in physical injury... The uniqueness of this repeated injury, like a torture method, is that it does not use something like an elaborate device for causing pain, but rather "humanity" as a tool for torture. Other people, the "Other" in our mind distinguished from the Self. Metaphysical. Promethean.
