| I'm sure there's been a thread like this, before. In any case, some of those laws weren't ridiculous when passed. It's just that what was meant to prevent a reoccurence of a then-current condition was never removed from the law books, and seems crazy today. That at least accounts for the one about the pig named Napoleon. And that business about masturbation in Indonesia being punishable by decaptiation...? I seem to recall that the ancient Hebrews consider stoning to death an appropriate punishment in the bible. The Indionesians were being much more humane in their punishment.
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