Humiliation for Humbleness? As time changes, many things also change. We have to change things to better suit the current societal standards. We strive "to make the world a better place" to live in. But what happens if something from the distant past is a better way of doing something? Is it possible for us to take a step backwards, from which we thought was a step forwards? Our so-called "civilized nation" is rather an idea than a fact. What is civilized? Jeff Jacoby, the author of an essay that titles "Bring Back Flogging." The first question one would ask about this declaration is what is flogging? Jacoby defines it as public displaying of physical corporal punishment. This was a way of correction and punishment during our Puritan age. "… was sentenced to be 'whipt, & branded with a hott iron on one of his cheekes.' … convicted of blasphemy … was ord....

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