A 16th century painting showing the skinning alive of a corrupt judge, Sisamnes, in the year 500BC.
Sisamnes was a corrupt royal judge at the time of Cambyses ll in Persia.
It was discovered that he took a bribe in court and passed an unfair judgement. As a consequence the king ordered that he be arrested for his corruption and ordered that he be skinned alive. Before passing judgement the king asked Sisamnes who he wished to nominate as his successor. Sisamnes, in his greed, chose his son, Otanes.
The king agreed and appointed Otanes to replace his father. He subsequently passed judgement and ordered that Sisamnes removed skin should be used to upholster the seat on which the new judge would sit in court to remind him of the potential consequences of corruption.
Otanes, in his deliberations, was forced to always remember that he was always sitting on the skin of his executed father. This helped to ensure fairness and equity in all his hearings, deliberations and sentences.
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Thank you very much... I will do that soon
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Hahaha,are you surprised?
I was a little surprised that my good brother @ezeemmanuel wrote such an article.
However, there were many more shocking things than that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State_propaganda_war
King Leopold II of Belgium was a figure called Satan.😨
It is even more shocking that a Belgian who was a Catholic committed such a demonic act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State
I will be writing on this after my exams soon
That is good!
Well this is nightmare-worthy! 😬
Great story!
I read about that in Taleb‘s book „skin in the game“.
Oh that's cool Papa 🥰
He is so wicked that he forget his a lawyer🙄