In one of the Discworld novels (I disremember which), the patrician of Ankh-Morpork is described as believing in giving everyone a fair chance: Criminals would have their legs and lips cut off and promised their freedom if they could run through the city playing a trumpet.
Boru
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson