But is it ethical to watch those injuries being inflicted — for pure enjoyment's sake?
From the time of Henry VII (reigned 1485 1509), branding was inflicted for all offenses which received benefit of clergy, but it was abolished for such in 1822.
As the judge commented, this was pain being inflicted for their own emotional pleasure, and for which they have subsequently shown no remorse.
And all this has been needless: the damage has been inflicted for a single reason only one old man's desire to hang on to power.If, by an impossibility, Mr Tsvangirai manages to win, he will face a huge rebuilding job.
Gerald H. Silk, of the law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann of Manhattan, which filed a class-action suit against LIPA in February, said the petitions to the commission "cannot retroactively remedy the harm that has been inflicted for several years on the ratepayers".
Neither violence nor terror is inflicted for its own sake, but rather for the sake of a further aim such as coercion, or some more specific political objective.
This differs from the common definition of self-harm, as damage is inflicted for a specific secondary purpose.
He cried when he understood the suffering that had been inflicted for generations -- and then he reached out to the leaders of nearly 400 villages across Senegal, asking them to commit to stopping the cutting of women's bodies.
This definition includes acts that are interrupted before self harm is inflicted, for example, a person removed from a bridge before jumping off or interrupted attempts of hanging, but excludes episodes of self harm by individuals who do not understand the meaning or the outcome of their act, for example due to a learning disability.
"I am here to invite and submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me, for what in law is a deliberate crime, and what appears to me to be the highest duty".
