09-21-2019, 10:44 AM | #111 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Identical twins are considered to be two halves of the same person so both persons are punished and honored for the deeds of either and if they marry, both must marry the same person.
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09-21-2019, 11:07 AM | #112 | |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
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What is the charge for killing just one of them? Attempted murder? What if one kills the other - attempted suicide?
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09-21-2019, 11:17 AM | #113 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
RELEASE THE SACRED KITTENS!!!
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09-21-2019, 07:48 PM | #114 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
I could see killing one twin as anything from assault and battery to double homicide. Fratricide could be completely without consequence, or require the surviving twin be euthanized to prevent its continued suffering.
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09-21-2019, 08:29 PM | #115 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Aggravated assault, the same as if you were criminally amputate someone's limb. If one kills the other the killer is treated as dangerously insane.
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09-24-2019, 10:46 AM | #116 |
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Curious Local Customs
A device used for torture or execution cannot be used for other purpose lest the "stink" of it's office carry. Likewise tools of torture and execution have to be ritually defiled before being allowed to do their duty. For instance a rope used for scourging or hanging cannot be mistaken for one used for an honorable purpose like climbing, or sailing a yacht, or as a weapon (like a sling, garote, or flail). Various methods exist of doing this. One is to plow a field around the prison and so it with radioactive material. This incidently helps guard the prison though the guards are provided with Hazmat suits. Another way of defiling an item is to wash it with the blood or other components of a particularly evil victim. All this by the way has social connotations that can be used for shamming ("The court sentences you to hang with the same rope that Bill Bloody-Hand was hung with").
As a footnote to this, nicknames can be given to such devices, usually one fraught with dark humor. Legends spring up of evil ghosts haunting them naturally.
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09-24-2019, 11:16 AM | #117 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Fraud. You are pretending to have a soul when you really only have half a soul.
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09-25-2019, 10:24 AM | #118 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
See how they died? The gods accept our sacrifice!
Kittens don't seem any weirder than geese or sheep or anything else. Good priests can presumably interpret anything at all as an omen meaning whatever they want anyway.
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09-25-2019, 10:33 AM | #119 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
So is catnip considered sacrilegious tampering, or is it a vital tool for awaking the divine?
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09-25-2019, 12:52 PM | #120 |
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Re: Curious Local Customs
Could go both ways. Possibly there is a deep religious schism on this question.
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