With his hands tied down the pole, the criminal whimpered for help, but no one cared, because all they wanted to see him be punished for the robberies he committed. He became the next to be publicly humiliated and punished with flogging instead of incarceration. Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” is an intriguing piece of writing that pitches a wild idea that i am unsure is worth catching. Jacoby wrote a thorough essay and presented the idea well but did not have enough evidence to convince his audience.
Jacoby’s thesis argues that, flogging would be a more effective alternative punishment for wrongdoers opposed to sending them prison. From what I read in his essay it would seem that flogging would be the optimum choice of punishment for wrongdoers, according to Jacoby. The idea presented is to start using flogging as a punishment for wrongdoers. This idea is used to push flogging as more efficient punishment and is also cheaper than incarceration. Jacoby sees the criminal justice system as failure and would implement flogging to make it more ideal. As someone who did not know what flogging was until after reading this essay can occur it is not something everyone will agree on, everyone including his audience.
The target audience of this piece is all of the free and law abiding Americans in the U.S. I say this because they are not
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It was somewhat included, but what included was when Jacoby reasons that, “Of course, their crimes are not out crimes: We do not arrest blasphemers or adulterers” (para. 10). Here Jacoby reveals how flogging was used as cruel punishment for actions that are more common now. When the puritans used flogging for those same crimes. These behaviors, blasphemers or adulterers, are more common now. Puritans saw them as crimes, because these crimes went against their religious beliefs. However, those behaviors are completely normal today so flogging would not be