RE: On Moral Authorities
November 18, 2016 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 10:32 am by Tonus.)
(November 18, 2016 at 10:23 am)Rhythm Wrote: Similar to the goatboiling law. What was the effect that seeing that -had- on whomever made it a stricture? What did it make them think of, what was the source of revulsion? Also, who -did- that, who boiled goats in their mothers milk?
Yeah, some of the laws sound like the writers were on a bender while they brainstormed some ideas in order to pad the run time.
And damn... how would anyone determine that the goat had been boiled in its own mother's milk? I suspect that the baby-goats-boiled-in-milk market died a pretty quick death shortly after that was introduced!
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