Chopping off of a robber's hands and feet has generally deterred those inclined toward banditry.
Not even the peremptory chopping off of part of Mr. Shin's middle finger — an event that warrants only two paragraphs in Mr. Harden's parade of horrors — was enough to set Mr. Shin's escape plans in motion.
These have included stoning to death for adultery and the chopping off of hands for theft, along with severe restraints on women's rights and provisions subjugating them to the will of men.
He describes scenes of an eight-year-old child being shot through the temple, of the chopping off of fingers, ears and lips, of babies being tossed into ovens, of bodies doused with petrol and set alight, of train lines "scattered with bloodied, limbless trunks, arms, legs, and severed heads".
In later publications he expresses this more colourfully by quoting Anaxagoras to the effect that a continuum "defies the chopping off of its parts with a hatchet".
"A genuine continuum," Weyl says, "cannot be divided into separate fragments".[22] In later publications he expresses this more colourfully by quoting Anaxagoras to the effect that a continuum "defies the chopping off of its parts with a hatchet".
Forest ecologists have a vested interest in understanding the long-term ecological role of Chaga, lest we learn later that the chopping off of wild Chaga accelerates beetle and other blights with untold downstream impact.
Amputation of body parts as a punishment is well known throughout the world where many cultures have been far more liberal towards the chopping off of various parts of the body as punishment, or for other non-medical reasons, rather than in order to restore health (Capart 1899-1900, Ackerknecht 1947, Brothwell and Moller-Christensen 1963a).
More goals will be chopped off for the most pedantic of reasons.
The Russians retaliated by kidnapping a member of the kidnappers' group, chopped off one of his body parts and sent it back in the mail.
